Word: tigers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...learned of its effects and composition from on-the-spot studies, more may soon be learned on the University of California's Berkeley campus. For there, following its mention in William Burroughs' Naked Lunch, yagé is now being peddled surreptitiously as "the jungle drug" or "the tiger drug." So far, those who have taken the substance have not told scientific investigators of its effects...
...looked like Harvard would bounce back to a mighty upset on Saturday. At the half, the Ivy cellar-dwellers held a 32-28 lead over the nationally-ranked Princeton five. But it was a different Tiger team in the second half, and Harvard suffered...
...Washington, the China watchers, basking in a new-found esteem, are also the acknowledged experts on Chinese restaurants (their honorable selections: the Yenching Palace and the Peking). They identify themselves with greetings in Mandarin: to "How are you?" one might answer Ma Ma Hu Hu, which means "horse, horse, tiger, tiger," or "pretty lousy." Though they can rarely come up with the tidy conclusions of their Kremlinological colleagues, they doubtless deserve the white button one of them was wearing last week: its four Chinese characters said simply: "We try harder...
...thirds of the French banking industry dozes along under government ownership, and most private bankers are too timid to fight. The lone tiger is a bald dynamo of 66, Jean Reyre, president and director general of the Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas. With at least a small stake in almost every big French industry, Reyre's "Paribas" spreads its investments across the world. They range from manganese ore in Gabon and gold in South Africa to factories in India and Russia...
...leaps over golden pebbles." One awed critic wrote that watching her was as fascinating as watching a wild animal in a cage. She herself apparently felt like a great tigress stalking among fluttering doves; she always claimed that she once tried to persuade a famous surgeon to graft a tiger's tail to her spine so that she could lash it about when she got angry. To her fans, she was known as "Sarah the Divine," or sometimes "The Magnificent Lunatic...