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...Richard Nixon is not haggling with members of the Chinese table tennis team over the cover price of the 1972 book Eye on Nixon, which chronicled his China travels. The former President was simply recalling how his "Ping Pong diplomacy" with a previous Chinese team nine years ago helped reopen relations between the U.S. and China. The visiting gang of eight presented Nixon with their team banner. He responded with a gift that may result in excess baggage charges on their flight home: autographed copies of the coffee-table tome edited by Daughter Julie Eisenhower and written by former Nixon...
...public high school, and there are only three theaters in the entire town. When seeking relief from the academic life, therefore, the average Princeton man invariably turns to his club. There he not only takes all his meals, but forms friendships, watches television, plays squash or bridge or Ping-Pong, drinks, parties, holds bull sessions, and even studies. Unless he's on a varsity team, its intramural program is his only athletic outlet, and when he becomes an alumnus, its activities will form the foci for fond memories, homecoming weekends, and pleas for financial support. More than any other part...
...opening in the U.S. and the sun was setting in Tehran, I had just finished reporting a story on terms set by the Majlis for the release of the American hostages. To relax, I went down to the basement of the Time-Life office in Tehran to play Ping-Pong with friends...
...took a friend, Mirza Hashem Hosseini, and his wife, whose house had been raided and looted by a gang claiming to be Islamic Guards. Also with us was another friend, Farhad Yaqubian, who had been arrested and beaten. His crime: he had dropped by to play Ping-Pong with me shortly after my office was raided...
Most reflector telescopes, including the smallest backyard instruments, play a kind of Ping Pong with light entering the open end of the tube, and so does the space telescope. Light strikes the primary mirror, and then is focused and bounced back to a small secondary mirror (12 in. in diameter) directly in front of it. Rebounding off this mirror as well, the captured light will be funneled through a central hole in the principal reflector and onto a bank of scientific instruments: two cameras, two spectrometers (for analyzing light) and a photometer (for measuring its intensity). All the information from...