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...ponder the fear of contagion that prevented the U.S. and China from exchanging diplomats or scholars, or from trading officially in even so innocuous an item as firecrackers. They may be even more perplexed by the fact that when the barriers were finally breached, it was done by Ping Pong players. This week the U.S. table-tennis party of ten men and five women is in China at the invitation of Peking. Seven U.S.-employed newsmen also were admitted...
...reflex action, deadly patience and a featherweight celluloid ball, had its murky origins in the late 19th century. The game seems to have been invented by an American or an Englishman: it was originally promoted in Britain and the U.S. by toy and game companies, under the patented name Ping Pong. As a competitive sport, it has seldom been taken seriously in this country, and today it is usually relegated to suburban basements, where sons can wreak Oedipal vengeance on their panting middle-aged fathers...
...Pusey, Bunting, Johnson, and Weisner went sets of brass plated bookends engraved with the seal of Cambridge. Pusey was speechless but managed an appropriate thank you. Bunting went up to the podium to pose for one of the pictures on this page and she and Vellucci discussed their upcoming Ping-Pong match for the Currier House tournament. Last year they were unable to play because Bunting was eliminated in an early round...
...leading candidate appears to be Fred Ferdindoupolus, three-time Crete Ping-Pong champion. "I plan to throw in my 100-page thesis on "Classic Lines in Ancient Greek Ping-Pong Courts" and see how it bounces, ha ha ha," Ferdindoupolus said...
Soon the mixing machine starts throwing around the numbered ping pong balls, which are picked out one by one by Jack, the caller. The sweat is rolling out of Helen's sleeveless dress and down her arm. She's oblivious; all she reacts to are the numbers...