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...hockey and basketball teams, despite the influx of talented freshmen, seem destined to join their football and soccer counterparts in the annals of lousy sports seasons at Harvard. But maybe we can build a dynasty on the fine performances of the Eastern champion ping-pong team...
Writer Jack Skow started out thinking the story was simple enough. "Then," he says, "I found myself feeling as if I were trying to stop 4,000 Ping Pong balls from rolling off a table." Trying to pin down the mystique of Muppet mania, Skow first tried to attack the question scientifically, only to throw up his hands cheerfully in the end. Says he: "The trick in writing the story was to analyze the magic without destroying...
...fingers separate, the mouth opens. If the Muppet's face is pliable, as Kirmit's is?he is not much more than a green felt sock that fits over a human hand, with a wide pink split for the mouth and what look like glued-on halves of Ping Pong balls for eyes?the clenchings and wrigglings of the operator's fist can change the expression with considerable subtlety. Not simply smiles, but wistful smiles are possible. If the face is relatively stiff, like that of Kermit's formidable friend Miss Piggy ( her head is carved from a block...
...latter group made the four days bearable. Not that they had been through such a thing before-but through it all they never lost their strong, if off, collective sense of humor. And they had the Pong machine and the 13-ball Foosball game to keep us amused. Still, it came down to about fifty of us sitting around, sick of being inside, sick of sitting in a basement and eating hamburgers and frozen french fries. Californians don't take the inside too well. There were a lot of quarters plunked into the two machines until Joe "got tired...
SATURDAY. While Begin stays in his cottage during Sabbath, others play Ping Pong and billiards. Sadat again up early, walking in woods, stays aloof even from his own delegation. Vance Aide Harold Saunders, after nightlong labors, produces first draft of American proposals. Americans spend all day working through three more drafts. (There will ultimately...