"This is the first time in 35 years I have encountered this reaction," Keeshan said Wednesday from his Babylon, N.Y., home. "I don't know what they expect, Mr. Moose and dropping pingpong balls?
Yet the same people who do not respond to the best planned motivational programs will go off by themselves and spend months teaching a rabbit to play pingpong.
The cries of the canoeists, paddling furiously toward us with what seemed to be long-handled, gaily painted pingpong paddles, brought out more boats from houses on stilts farther upstream and in the side creeks.
And he has persuaded the Boys Clubs of America, an organization of 1,300 clubs with 1.8 million members, to adopt pingpong as its official sport.
In the early 1970s and Sino-American "pingpong diplomacy," Mr. Lee produced a rubber doll of the former U.S. president, in need of a shave, holding a pingpong paddle and ball.
In the early 1970s and Sino-American "pingpong diplomacy," Mr. Lee produced a rubber doll of the former U.S. president, in need of a shave, holding a pingpong paddle and ball.
Plastic bottles, plastic windmills, pingpong balls, key chains with bells, red and green screw anchors and large plastic balls all work.
The warming of U.S. Chinese relations, which began with pingpong diplomacy, has blossomed into a patchwork of cultural and scientific ties, about $14 billion a year in two-way trade, and investment of some $3.4 billion in China by about 300 companies.