Word: eleven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...watchtowers still stand and electrified wire keeps passportless citizens from leaving. Waved past the border gate, the bus braked to a stop in front of the customs house that marks the Hungarian town of Hegeyshalom. Out stepped 45 inquisitive Americans-businessmen, civic leaders, journalists-about to start on an eleven-day journey through five Eastern European capitals...
...Viet Nam, the Oriskany suffered in one day the Navy's worst disaster of the Viet Nam War: 35 officers (24 of them combat-conditioned pilots) and eight enlisted men had died, all but six of suffocation. In two years at war, the carrier had previously lost eleven pilots...
...land (TIME, Oct. 21), so his rest cure in Bangkok for what he called a "sprained arm" was likely to be lengthy. Then came a rebellion of royalist air force officers under General Thao Ma; they bombed Vientiane and then fled with half the nation's air force-eleven American-built T-28 fighter-bombers-to Thailand...
Whatever the reason for the incursion, it was enough to galvanize the anti-Communists into action. They got their eleven fighter-bombers back from Thailand, though the rebellious pilots, Laos' best, stayed behind in Korat. Stiffened, the air force began airlifting soldiers up to Ban Lat Hane to drive out the invaders. And Prince Souvanna Phouma, who had returned from Europe at the news of the air force revolt, appeared at a news conference immaculately dressed in a double-breasted blue suit and white tie to give Kong Le a long-distance pat on the back, announcing that...
...talked his way into the apartments of gullible women by claiming to be a representative of a model agency. He did not harm any of the women, but got his kicks from touching them while he took their measurements on the pretext that he was recruiting talent. He served eleven months-for attempted breaking and entering and assault and battery-before he was paroled...