Word: estrada
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some places, they already have been. In 1920, when Guatemalan Dictator Manuel Estrada Cabrera was over thrown, market women joined the mob that lynched several of his Cabinet ministers. In 1954 they staged demonstrations that helped bring down the Communist Arbenz regime. In Nicaragua, one Nicolasa Sacasa leads a strong-armed squad of market women in battles against opponents of the Somoza family. And aspiring politicians, far and wide, pay court to the market woman, hoping that she will pass along a favorable word with the groceries...
...there is a solid contender other that the Yankees this year, it is probably the Baltimore Orioles. Steve Barber (8-3) and Chuck Estrada (3-1), both now mature at 24 after three big-league season, are pitching brilliantly. Earl Robinson. Boog Powell, and Jim Gentile are hitting consistently. If not spectacularly, and with the addition of Luis Aparicio, the Birds' infield has become the league's tightest...
...picture at Baltimore is brighter, although a lot of the glitter so far has been in press releases. Steve Barber (9-6) is out of the Army, and he, Chuck Estrada (9-17), and Milt Pappas (12-10) are a youthful, effective mound aggregation. Robin Roberts (10-9) might have one more year, and that could be important...
...Down. According to Estrada, no similar oriental-looking objects have been found elsewhere in Central or South America. His theory is that a small group of people from across the Pacific found their way to Ecuador, perhaps were shipwrecked near Bahia and founded a colony there. Some of their imported cultural traits, such as a liking for headrests and peaked gables, persisted for a few generations before dying...
...Around Estrada's recently published discoveries, the old argument is brewing anew. Unconvinced, Anthropologist Matthew Stirling, long with the Smithsonian, says that headrests are worldwide, and people living in similar climates are apt to have similar house designs. As for the Buddha-like figurines: "There are only a few ways," says Stirling, "for a human being to sit down." Harvard Anthropologist Gordon Willey is also skeptical. Says Willey: "The high American civilizations from Mexico to Peru had been rolling for 1,500 to 2,000 years before this possible Asiatic migration...