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...Nixon men, meanwhile, were also looking ahead to the contest with whoever the Democratic candidate might be. As early as February, Plumber Liddy was again promoting wiretap ping plans. He had charts drawn up illustrating how to organize an eavesdropping campaign against the Watergate headquarters of the Democratic National Committee and the Miami Beach convention headquarters of the Democratic candidates...
Riggs moved on from marbles to administer many such lessons in tennis, golf, Ping Pong, pool, dominoes, craps, backgammon and gin rummy. Come Sunday, in Ramona, Calif., he will co-star in what may be the first nationally televised tennis hustle. At 55, he will take on Margaret Court, 30. If Bobby has his way, he will simultaneously ring up some new proceeds and put down women's tennis. The match is the result of a challenge he made two years ago to Billie Jean King. "You insist that top women players provide a brand of tennis comparable...
...every step, every shifting of body weight to be a carefully considered move. No place, no hour was safe. After O'Brien had watched a few friends placed in plastic body bags, his sensitivity gave way to a determined indifference. A corpse became merely someone he had "clobbered in ping pong back in Chu Lai." Like other wars, there were too many challenges to what was perceived as a man's courage for more than grim sentimentality. "Watching friends die gnaws at you," O'Brien says. "If I had gone through World War II, I probably would have written much...
...People one day last week. He paused uncertainly at the door, but protocol officials hustled him over to stand in line with Premier Chou En-lai and greet guests at a dinner honoring Cambodia's exiled Prince Norodom Sihanouk. In this low-key style, Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping, now 69, returned from the shadows that have enveloped him since 1966, when he was purged along with Chief of State Liu Shao-chi as "one of a handful of party leaders who took the capitalist road...
...offers an interesting pagoda, a few colorful tombs and a lively market. The nearest restaurant is two hours away by car. The truce inspectors seldom leave their compound, however, except on business. They eat mediocre American-style food-provided under a contract by an American company -play Ping Pong and stage parties for each other...