Word: 11s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is one place in France where Americans still have some clout: Le Mans. For a while, after a trio of U.S. Ford Mark 11s finished one-two-three in last year's 24 Hours of Le Mans, officials talked about changing the rules of the race - to require that cars go 30 laps between fueling stops (the Fords needed gas every 20 laps) and have room inside for four persons (the Mark 11s could barely squeeze in two). They changed their mind when Ford threatened to pull out of this year's race altogether, leaving the field...
Like Black Marbles. The Air Force trundled not one, but two A-11s onto the runway at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., had a third one disassembled in side an Edwards hangar for close-up observation. From the side, the swift ship looks like a stretched-out version of the X-15 rocket ship. From the front, the effect is just as strange; two bulbous engine nacelles above the razor-thin wing look like black marbles perched precariously on a strand of wire; the thin vertical tail surfaces, canted noticeably inward, jut upward like giant insect antennae...
Cuban drivers have been trained to handle 75 Korea-vintage 35-ton T-34 tanks, 25 old 51-ton Joseph Stalin 11s and 100 new 40-ton T-54s, the last equipped with night-fighting infra-red sights and mounted with 100-mm. guns...
...11s. 9d. 23/2...
Addition and subtraction were perhaps no more difficult than they were for the Romans, who could easily take XXXIX from CIV, but multiplication and division often unhinged the juvenile mind. Sample: if 23 cricket bats cost ?25 11s. 9d., how much does one cricket bat cost...