Word: eleven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wonderful place to get away from it all," said Lady Bird Johnson. How she knew was a mystery. Accompanied by a 24-raft flotilla of 60 newsmen, her own twelve-man entourage, and Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, she floated (with paddle) down eleven miles of the shallow Rio Grande in Texas' Big Bend National Park to dramatize her beautify-and see-the-U.S.A. campaigns. Everything came off more or less swimmingly as the ladybird watchers went over the side in search of closeups or simply fell off, like the stretch-pantsed newswoman who jammed her parasol...
Federal pressure and Southern conscience are certainly having their effect. The great white wall of segregated Southern justice is finally being breached, as illustrated by some scattered but significant recent events: the nearly unprecedented life sentence for a white youth who raped a Negro girl in Mississippi; eleven Negroes serving on a jury trying the Negro killers of a white policeman in Georgia. Yet the South has a long way to go before Negroes will have gained "equal justice under...
...diverting, three-act "play" with an anti-litter message. More to the point, GOMA honored Colorado's Adolph Coors Co. for its remarkable success in reducing the number of beer cans by the side of the highway. Coors, whose beer is the best-selling in nine of the eleven Western states, has been paying 10 for every empty can and bottle returned-at a loss to the company of 10 each. With recovery rates as high as 85% in some states, Coors last year retrieved 104 million bottles and over 13 million aluminum cans...
...gerbil was brought to the U.S. for medical research eleven years ago, moved into the pet world only in the past year. Word spread through the kiddie grapevine with the help of once-a-week TV appearances on NBC's Birthday House and a plug from Barbra Streisand (who owns two) on her recent CBS special. Today gerbils are in demand from New York to Alaska. In La Grange, Ill., the Parkway Pet Store sold 16 after putting a sign in the window. In Atlanta, the Ark Pet Shop has already sold 125, has more orders than...
...quit school at 15, "bummed around for three years" before joining the Air Force. When he got out in 1962, a buddy taught him drums and guitar, and they formed a combo. But they couldn't hack it playing honky-tonks, so Sadler tried the Army. Then came eleven rigorous months of Special Forces training that qualified him for his green beret as a combat medic. Along the way, at Fort Sam Houston, he says, "I started writing songs because I had a terrible time playing anybody else's music." His first audiences were the boys...