Word: ping-pong
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...Into West Berlin on the subway came Karel Douba, 32, who claims to be the ping-pong champ of northern Czechoslovakia, and his blonde girl friend. They told how they had crossed the Czech border by carrying a basket of mushrooms and posing as pickers. In the Soviet zone of Germany they thumbed a ride, found that the driver who slowed down to pick them up was a Red policeman. He took them to Berlin without question. Douba said he recently finished serving a year's jail term imposed when a Communist agent heard him joking in a restaurant...
...motion, but instead of colliding with one another every 10,000th of an inch, as they do at sea level, they travel many feet between collisions. When a solid body passes through such a rarefied atmosphere, it behaves as if it were moving in space containing a few ping-pong balls in rapid, random motion...
Because of the House Committee, one of the central entries has this year become an amusement center of sorts. Its basement boasts two ping-pong tables, a new pool table, a television room, and two drink machines which issue seven varieties of liquid between them. On every night except Saturday, the House Committee runs a sandwich counter...
Facilities at the clinic include a pool where newly crippled children learn to walk, and a rocking bed which sways back and forth to aid in breathing. There is also an exercise room--furnished with stairs, the model of a public bus, and ping-pong tables...
...permitting, he would take his putter out for 45 minutes on a nine-hole putting course in his garden. Occasionally he and his wife slipped away for a long weekend in the mountains at Karuizawa; there he played 36 holes of golf (middle 80s) a day. He also likes ping-pong and canasta...