Word: eleven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...choose six from among the 48 slates. On the theory that it would ensure him a loyal majority in the Senate, the complex system was devised by Ky himself last spring when he expected to be the presidential candidate. But the voters were not amenable. Ky personally backed eleven slates, and all but one of them lost. Thieu promoted two slates, and both lost. Huong promoted two; both lost. Runner-Up Dzu backed five; all lost. Indeed, the six triumphant slates look something like a political scientist's dream of incipient democracy come true: two are likely to support...
...balloting procedures had not hindered voters so much as they had contributed to an honest election. Each voter presented his yellow registration card at the polls and had its corner snipped off so that he could not use it to vote again. He then picked up one envelope and eleven separate ballots, each bearing the symbol of a ticket and photographs of its presidential and vice-presidential candidates. Election officials carefully instructed him to enter the polling booth, select the ticket he wanted to vote for, insert it in the envelope and then drop the sealed envelope in the ballot...
Diem's trust in Thieu was misplaced. Only eleven months later, the young colonel led one of the 5th Division's regiments in the coup against Diem. In the wake of Diem's overthrow, Thieu won his general's stars and the secretary-generalship of the junta that took over...
Earlier this year, several Americans in jail on currency-violation charges accused Dzu of promising to spring them if they paid him $10,000 to bribe their judges. The investigation was dropped to allow Dzu to run for the presidency. The most energetic and eloquent of the eleven candidates, he daily unleashed a barrage of invective at Thieu and Ky, all the while claiming plots and sabotage meant to damage him. Consistency was no hobgoblin; he first said that he had met with Tri Quang to join forces, then denied it. He said Viet Cong sympathizers had been encouraged...
...seemed scarcely more troubled than the companies. At Ford's River Rouge plant, workers showed up for their last shift in a festive mood that resulted in several stoppages on the assembly lines. The first of the U.A.W.'s 160,000 Ford employees walked off more than eleven hours before their old contract expired. The strike was almost anticlimactic, even though it closed down 93 Ford plants in 25 states. Reuther announced the walkout shortly after midnight, then went home to nurse a case of laryngitis he had picked up in eight weeks of futile negotiations. When payday...