Word: herbs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cobbled, orange-tree-lined streets were mostly deserted except for a few trudging, overcoated citizens. But beneath the icy surface of Paraguay there was a thawing new ray of hope. Men whispered word of it across the marble tabletops of kerosene-heated coffeehouses, over steaming mate, the herb tea sipped from a gourd through a metal straw. The hope, still dim but voiced seriously for the first time, is that outside pressure-chiefly from the U.S.-will eventually force the dictator...
...Mile Run. The U.S. has only two better-than-four-minute milers: Oregon's rangy Dyrol Burleson, who shaved .2 sec. from Herb Elliott's American record with a 3:57.6-min. mile last month, and stubby Jim Beatty of Santa Clara (Calif.) Youth Village, whose best effort is 3:58. Each time the two have met, Beatty has won. Betting is high that they may soon push each other close to Australian Elliott's world record...
After months of anticipation and weeks of ballyhoo, Herb Elliott will not run the mile this afternoon. But the biennial clash between Harvard and Yale on the one hand and Oxford and Cambridge on the other at 5 p.m. in the Stadium will still be worth seeing...
Saturday, at Ithaca, the combined Penn-Cornell team registered a stunning upset over Oxford-Cambridge, 8 to 7. (In these meets, only first places count in the scoring.) Meanwhile, Herb Elliott of Cambridge, who will join the English for the meet here, was a discouraging fifth in an 800-meter race in Zagreb, Yugoslavia...
...Once the brightest pitching prospect in the American League, Cleveland's Herb Score was only 23 when he won 20 games in 1956. Next season Score was struck in the right eye by a line drive off the bat of Yankee Infielder Gil McDougald. Doctors saved his sight, but Score never regained his old form. Inclined to wildness, fastball Pitcher Score was traded to the Chicago White Sox last year. Last week he was farmed out to San Diego in the Pacific Coast League. Said White Sox Manager Al Lopez: "There is nothing wrong with Herb...