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Prudential's ping-pong power. If Donald S. MacNaughton wins this game, it will be because Violetta Nesukaitis isn't really trying. He's chairman of th(...)
Prudential's ping-pong power. If Donald S. MacNaughton wins this game, it will be because Violetta Nesukaitis isn't really trying. He's chairman of th(...)

Prudential's ping-pong power. If Donald S. MacNaughton wins this game, it will be because Violetta Nesukaitis isn't really trying. He's chairman of th(...)

Date4/30/1971
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Original Toronto Star caption: Prudential's ping-pong power. If Donald S. MacNaughton wins this game, it will be because Violetta Nesukaitis isn't really trying. He's chairman of the giant Prudential Insurance Co. of America, visiting Toronto Friday. She's a claims clerk in the U.S. firm's Toronto office. Violetta also happnes to be one of Canada's table tennis team that played in the now famour peking ping-pong tournament. It helped than U.S.-Red China relations.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0070631F
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