Word: eleven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...among youngsters who had not developed any immunity because many of them were living more sheltered, preschool lives when the state had its last major Asian-flu attack four years ago. In Los Ange les, up to 300,000 children and 3,500 teachers were out; 90 public and eleven parochial schools gave up and closed...
...sometimes promised students. In a few cases open hostility erpted between the instructors and the administration. One graduate student was fired from a college in South Carolina when he complained about the steam heat being on in his classroom in July. In the most spectacular incident of the summer, eleven instructors lost their jobs at Bishop College outside of Dallas when they organized a protest march against the bookstore, which was overcharging students...
...himself had taken up a cue in a West Madison Street billiard parlor in Chicago to try to shove a ball in a pocket. Looking like the fiercest shark in the pool, Nobel Prizewinner Martin Luther King Jr., 37, was making the best of a bad leave on the eleven with a thin-cut one-rail shot to the corner. Cracked the preacher, who had hustled in from a civil rights walking tour of the city for the game: "I'm just shooting my best stick." No masse demonstrations, please...
...eight, he was playing in Berlin under the sharp eye of Josef Joachim, who soon brought the Wunderkind to Barth. At eleven, he played Mozart's Concerto in A Major with the Berlin Symphony. In 1906, thanks to the influence of a U.S. music critic who had heard him play at Paderewski's Swiss villa, the young pianist was signed for a tour of the U.S. It was a dud. At his debut in Carnegie Hall, the critics dismissed Rubinstein for being, as one put it, "half-baked?not a prodigy, not an adult." Those were the days when...
...Youth Movement. Despite their adventurous outlook, all of the top men in Lehman's baroquely ornamented eleven-story headquarters at No. 1 William Street, a discreet short block away from Manhattan's Wall Street, are well past today's popular business retirement age. The presiding patriarch, Robert ("Bobby") Lehman, spare and spry at 73, controls the major part of the firm's capital, operates out of a jewel-box-sized office with just enough wall space for six small paintings from his $100 million private collection.* Though he concentrates on picking promising youthful talent, Lehman...