61.   Despite struggling through his first taste of top-of-the-line major-league pitching, Mateo showed flashes of the player he can be in the bigs.

62.   Eight-year-old Austin Jones had his first taste of peanut butter at age one.

63.   Elarton got his first taste of the majors when he was promoted from Class AAA New Orleans last June.

64.   Encouraged by his mother, who had been a dancer, Murray had his first taste of theater as a child actor in Johannesburg, South Africa.

65.   Edberg had his first real taste of that frustration at about this time last year.

66.   Experiences with Mir gave the United States its first taste of sustained human operations in space in nearly a quarter century.

67.   Fascinating cover story suggests that the Unabomber was actually born at Harvard, which gave Ted Kaczynski his first taste of higher education.

68.   Far from the prying eyes of neighbors and the upraised hand of her fierce mother, she gets her first taste of happiness.

69.   Even Kostunica has sought to rein in some of his more enthusiastic backers, who are relishing their first taste of power.

70.   For Jamie, a novelist on the threshold of fame, a first taste of success has him singing like a revivalist preacher.