Word: herbs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best track and field team ever assembled in the U.S. A frail (120 Ibs.), squeaky-voiced high school graduate who can't make up his mind whether he wants to be a biologist or a politician, Lindgren runs at least 200 miles a week-"in the sand like Herb Elliott, up hills like Peter Snell." But until last June, Lindgren had never run a 10,000-meter race in his life. By last week he had run a grand total of three-and won them...
...Died. Herb Sheldon, 51, impresario of radio and TV kiddie shows, who forswore the clownish costumes and childish twaddle of his colleagues, instead gave pre-teen audiences the scoop about building muscles (spinach helps), crossing streets and watching too much TV, becoming one of NBC's highest-paid stars at $250,000 a year in the 1950s; of a heart attack; in Manhasset...
...there was Dwight Eisenhower, a late and reluctant entry, the choice of the G.O.P.'s Northeastern kingmakers, of Tom Dewey and Herb Brownell and Cabot Lodge, the man who could take over the presidency of the U.S. for the Republicans, while, as the charge went, "Taft...
...waffle around on. Westerner Stewart Udall, 44, thinks of conservation in terms of wide open spaces, not a metropolitan nine holes. The twain finally met, however, after the Interior Secretary okayed plans to build a parking lot and aquarium on the course, bringing an anguished letter from his friend Herb challenging Stew to a friendly round, "because I want him to see the course from a player's viewpoint." Udall shot a 46 to Herblock's 51, but the loser scored a tactical hole in one at the ninth. Flushed with triumph, Udall announced, "You were right...
There was only about 6 feet, 3 inches and 175 pounds of difference between the teams, and its name was Herb Fitzgibbon. The Tigers' top player was the only man on either team to win in both singles and doubles and he, almost singlehandedly, took care of the decisive point...