Word: eleven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lavished hours last month on the selection of wallpaper, carpeting and furniture for his new two-level Potomac-view apartment (rent: $310 a month) in an integrated section of southwest Washington. He owns a $40,000, nine-room home in the prosperous Boston suburb of Newton, has an eleven-acre estate on Martha's Vineyard...
...Herbert Botts spluttered: "This is for members of Congress only." Replied Hawaii's Patsy Mink, 39: "Well, we're members of Congress." Indeed they were. And Patsy, along with Washington's Catherine May, 52, and Illinois' Charlotte Reid, 53, figured it was about time the eleven ladies in the U.S. House of Representatives started enjoying some of the boys' privileges-such as the use of the House gym and swimming pool. The three gals marched into the director's office to sign up for a new calisthenics class, quickly had Botts "turning red, blue...
...trackmen are in top form during the winter, partly because some events are a whole lot harder indoors. The world record for the mile is 3 min. 51.3 sec. outdoors but 5.1 sec. slower indoors. The board tracks are slower and slipperier than outdoors and smaller, too, with eleven laps to the mile instead of four, 22 turns instead of eight. The indoor long-jump record is 27 ft., compared with 27 ft. 4¾ in. outdoors-because runways are shorter indoors and jumpers cannot work up as much speed for their takeoff...
Quite simply, the Administration wants more tangible support from the most voluble champions of the SST. This week chiefs of the plane's U.S. customers-eleven airlines and one leasing company-will meet with Federal Aviation Agency brass to hear a plan for their direct participation in the prototype financing. The FAA wants them to chip in $1,000,000 for each of the 58 planes they have on order, over and above the $100,000-a-plane deposits they have already made. Later, foreign airlines, which have signed up for 56 SSTs, may be asked to join...
...gone to boost his strength in a sanitarium run by his future rival, John Harvey Kellogg, creator of corn flakes. Post followed Postum up with Grape Nuts and Post Toasties. He taught his only child the business, had her sit in on directors' meetings at the age of eleven, took her along on factory tours (and incidentally taught her boxing). When she married Socialite Edward B. Close in 1905, she brought Father along on the honeymoon to Italy and Egypt. She and Close had two daughters, Adelaide and Eleanor. Marjorie inherited several million dollars, plus control of the Postum...