Word: eleven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bamboo trellises covered with branches. Down it flow an estimated 5,500 to 7,000 men each month. In an effort to stem the tide, Guam-based B-52 Stratoforts last week carpet-bombed infiltration outlets in South Viet Nam's "Zone C" for the eighth time in eleven days. But only Ma and his antique, prop-driven T-28s have been hitting the Sihanouk Trail...
...Ahmed will probably surface in Paris, join forces there with Mohammed Boudiaf and Mohammed Khider, two other exiled members of Algeria's "Historic Nine" leaders of the liberation battle, and from abroad remind Algerians how little Boumedienne has done to better their dreary lot since he seized power eleven months ago. Additional guards were slapped on the prison headquarters 25 miles southwest of Algiers, where Ben Bella sits in jail. "This one won't get out," barked a prison official-uneasily...
...team to beat in the American League was supposed to be the defending champion New York Yankees, and the Indians did that all right-they wound up fifth while the Yankees finished sixth. But McDowell established himself as the American League's top pitcher, winning 17 games against eleven losses, posting an earned-run average of 2.18, striking out 325 batters in 273 innings-more per inning than the Los Angeles Dodgers' Sandy Koufax...
...they had wiped up the ice with the Toronto Maple Leafs 4-0 in the playoff semifinals. By comparison, the main thing the Red Wings had going for them was Gordie Howe, the alltime scoring champion (with 624 goals) of the N.H.L. But Gordie was 37 and slowing down; eleven other Red Wings were 30 or older, and the long season was taking its toll...
...Europeans, national boundaries can often be formidable obstacles. To repatriate a British body from Poland, for example, took three weeks. Representatives of 11,000 undertakers from eleven European countries have organized the European Thanatological Association, and last month Belgium and Germany signed the first of many proposed bilateral agreements. They hope to establish uniform codes and costs, so that home delivery never takes longer than four days. Experienced travelers are skeptical. A U.S. resident recently deceased in Paris was kept on dry ice in her hotel bed throughout the lengthy New Year's festivities until a city hall official...