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Phillips Brooks House offered a basement room, which some wit soon dubbed "the black hole of Calcutta." Although students could cat a homemade lunch there and play ping-pong, there was no doubt about the room's inadequacy. Finally, in 1935, with aid from a special fund, the University opened the Commuter Center in Dudley...
...lounge, television, ping pong, and pool rooms are open to all who attend. The dance will last from 8:30 p.m. to midnight and admission is free...
...been on the rise for months. The Nationalist defeat on the mainland had flooded Hong Kong with thousands of refugees. Many upper-class Chinese brought plenty of money-and inflation-with them. Prices quickly outran the wages paid by Hong Kong's employers. Said Trolley Conductor Kwan Ping, who supports his family of five on less than $30 a month: "My wages cover only rent for my one room and the very cheapest food. I have nothing for clothing or emergency expenses." Other conductors agreed. Said one: "We have no other intention except to fill our stomachs. Why raise...
...games were such things as Atomic Energy Kits (complete with radioactive screen and uranium ore), Fotokits (with negatives of George Washington, Roy Rogers, Stan Musical, and Rita Hayworth), ping-pong firing Sub-machine Guns ("harmless to bulbs and bric-a-brac"), and a Milton Berle puppet kit ("containing also an actual television script.") There was also a miniature candy-vending machine (subway-type) which required pennies to operate...
...look like the man to lead his people to independence and victory over the Communists. When he first assumed his Dragon Throne (1932), he was a playboy and a puppet. The French owned him, along with the 7,000 jazz phonograph records and the 100 dozen ping-pong balls with which he moved into his teakwood Palace of Supreme Peace. The young emperor, as "absolute master, father and mother" of his tough, diligent people, seemed only partly to fulfill the requirements of the Imperial Book of Rites which says that "the Emperor's eyes must dwell motionless upon utter...