Word: eleven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nickel if they could sing a pitch-perfect F sharp first thing each morning, Peter's future was certainly predictable.* "I first thought of being a composer," he says. "Then I thought about conducting. Then, gradually, I became resigned to being a pianist." At the age of eleven, he entered Philadelphia's Curtis Institute and studied with his father in a "depersonalized relationship." He made his formal debut at twelve, five years later began concertizing abroad-and hated every minute of it. "All those tea parties," he shudders, "the interviews, the bouncing from one hotel room to another...
...weeks later, she and eleven others met to compare notes. When the numbers were totaled up, the results were surprising enough to touch off a public debate. "The streets of downtown Boston are a treeless wasteland," began a story at the top of the Globe's front page. The Parks Department had to admit it had no idea how bad the situation was. Almost 75 per cent of the city's streets had no shade...
...until they lose the ability to resist and are receptive to fresh ideas." The breakdown begins to the clang of an 8:15 a.m. bell in a windowless classroom, where the student faces one of his four alternating instructors. Student and teacher speak nothing but the foreign language during eleven 40-minute periods, relieved only by five-minute English breaks. All day long, the instructor points to objects and pictures, pantomimes actions, pronounces words, asks simple questions. The student is expected to fire back answers without taking time for mental translation...
Milan-based, Progetti capitalizes on speed, sharp figuring and salesmanship. The company snatched a deal for a $51 million, 500-mi. Syrian pipeline away from a British firm by offering to install it in half the time at lower cost. Beating out eleven international companies for a $32 million Madras, India, refinery contract, Progetti agreed to complete the 2½ million-ton plant in two years. The company has also pushed into the European market with a $4,000,000 pipeline in France, a $2,500,000 undersea line in Spain and a $3,000,000 factory job in West...
...often, MacDonald takes off from an actual, contemporary crime. The Last One Left goes back to the 1961 wreck of a 60-ft. ketch that burned and sank off the Bahamas, apparently with only one survivor, Skipper Julian Harvey. Three days later, a freighter picked up another survivor, an eleven-year-old girl, Terry Jo Duperrault. Harvey promptly killed himself-even before the child reported how the debt-burdened skipper had murdered her family and his own wife in a plot to collect $20,000 in insurance...