Word: eleven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...demonstrations, but last week the Vietniks picked the wrong place to stage a protest: South Boston. There, the predominantly Irish inhabitants not only retain a good bit of the rough and tumble of their immigrant ancestors but take most unkindly to unpatriotic displays. Trouble was in the air as eleven Viet Nam demonstrators reached the steps of the South Boston courthouse, where two of them calmly burned their draft cards and two others put the torch to their draft-reclassification notices...
Spontaneity there was, as well as some solid thinking for the future. With a total area of 4,000,000 sq. mi. and a population of 100 million, the eleven nations would do well to establish a regional economic federation. In their discussions, the leaders agreed to work toward an abolition of trade barriers between them but recognized that before federation could become a reality, each of their separate economies would have to be considerably strengthened. Simple as that may sound, it was the most sensible decision reached by African nations in many a wrangling month...
...enough unions to talk to from here to Chicago," said Boston Globe President John Taylor, referring to the eleven unions, which disagree on the kind of contract they want...
ORCHESTRAS The Elite Eleven...
...instrument of the highest caliber (TIME, Sept. 11, 1964). Moving west, there are no fewer than five more orchestras which, by the outstanding efforts of their masterbuilder conductors, now merit room at the top with the Big Five and Pittsburgh, comprising, in all, what might be called the Elite Eleven...