Word: eleven
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There is every indication that the British educational system has failed. Children are streamed into classes at the age of eleven, according to their score on the British equivalent of an achievement test. Like American tests, the 11+ exam discriminates heavily against children who do not come from middle-class white backgrounds. There is no sign that British-born colored people have an easier-time...
Part of his determination derives from a desire to complete himself as a musician. Although he has made guest appearances with many orchestras, and for eleven years was one of George Szell's associate conductors of the Cleveland Orchestra, the Atlanta job gives Shaw his first chance to test himself solidly with instrumental music. To take it, he had to sacrifice a lucrative schedule of outside engagements. But he has no regrets: "I'm happiest when I'm building what is in a sense my own instrument...
After the crushing of Hungary's anti-Russian revolt eleven years ago, Josef Cardinal Mindszenty took refuge in the U.S. mission in Budapest, where he has lived ever since. Last week Budapest buzzed with rumors that Mindszenty, now 75, was about to abandon his self-chosen prison. Lending weight to the reports, Vienna's Franziskus Cardinal König flew to Budapest for his fourth visit to Mindszenty this year. Yet at week's end König had again left the country-alone...
There was more in almost every contract category. Holidays were increased from nine to eleven, pensions were raised. The 20,000 skilled workers, who have long beefed about having to accept the same increases as the unskilled men, got an extra 30? an hour on top of the general first-year increase. And Reuther boasted of an "historic" victory with a new guaranteed annual income provision-though it was hardly the executive-style salary plan that he had been seeking. It amounts to little more than a substantial sweetening of current unemployment benefits, under which idled workers...
...just one of those days when nothing seems to go your way," lamented freshman football coach Henry N. Lamar following his squad's 27-6 loss to the Holy Cross freshman eleven...