Word: cupful
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From Tel Aviv to Coventry, the cities of Western Europe and the Mediterranean have lately been afflicted with a phenomenon familiar to the U.S.: the beatnik. Unwashed, unshaven, unregenerate, clad in turtleneck sweatshirt, Levi's and sandals, the European variety is often armed with a tin cup and either a guitar or colored chalks to wrest pennies for wine and smokes from sidewalk patrons. Britons, who tend to consider eccentrics national assets, regard their beatniks with tolerant amusement. Charles de Gaulle's police have been trying, with scant success, to shoo them out of newly scrubbed Paris. Chancellor...
Above all, L'Équipe is thorough. To cover the World Cup soccer tournament, which ended last week in England (see SPORT), the paper sent over 13 reporters, three cartoonists and four photographers. When U.S. Miler Jim Ryun recently set a new world record in Berkeley, Calif., L'Équipe ran his picture on the front page under a banner headline; inside, the paper devoted the better part of a page to a description of his feat, and postrace interviews with Ryun and ex-Record Holders Michel Jazy and Roger Bannister. "I doubt," boasts L'Équipe...
...going down - and now even skirts seem to be. The Beatles were hooted out of Manila, and the national cricket team is currently getting clobbered by the West Indies. Still, England oscillates. The cause of the excitement is an ugly, 12-in.-high trophy known as the World Cup and symbolic of supremacy in soccer - a game that seems tame to Americans, but still is the most popular spectator sport on earth. In London last week, after years of trying, England finally won the World Cup by defeating West Germany...
...watch the climactic contest of a 71 -nation competition that started two years ago. England was the odds-on (at 1-2) favorite on the strength of a tenacious defense, led by Captain Bobby Moore, that had allowed just one goal (on a penalty shot) during the entire World Cup playoff - plus a swarming, aggressive offense sparked by Bobby Charlton, who scored both goals when England beat Portugal 2 to 1 in the semifinals. The West Germans were longshots at 7 to 4, but they had beaten Russia in the semis and their own defense had given up only...
...they had been right, the World Cup would be in Bonn. The game was only minutes old when Germany's Helmut Haller slipped a screen shot past Goalie Gordon Banks. The English bounced back, went ahead 2 to 1, and the victory celebration had already started in the stands when-oops!-Germany's Wolfgang Weber booted the ball home to tie the score, with 30 sec. to go. Into overtime it went, and for ten long minutes it looked as though the two weary teams (no substitutes are permitted in soccer) might still be playing next week. Then...