Word: eleven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alexander's much-admired conciliation court averts divorce in 44% of the cases it tackles. In Los Angeles, Judge Roger A. Pfaff's conciliation court gets 50% of its business from lawyers who refer unhappy spouses even before they file divorce suits. With the aid of eleven highly trained counselors who must have at least ten years' experience, Pfaff's court helps more than 4,000 volunteer couples a year, gets 60% of them to make up and sign detailed "husband-wife" agreements that have the force of law. "Divorce courts throughout America are burying marriages...
...Eleven years ago, "Chuck" Hinman was pitching Class A baseball for the Milwaukee Braves. But he soon had a bachelor of fine arts from Syracuse, and in the end, art won out. While teaching industrial-shop work in a Long Island private school, he perfected his hand at carpentry and began constructing wooden ribs that could add contours to his painting...
...Eleven professors from the Law school are among more than 100 signatures of a petition to Congress opposing efforts by the House Un-American Activities Committee to cite a Chicago doctor, his assistant, and a social Chicagoans for contempt of Congress...
...responded routinely. The widow of Robert G. Thompson, a World War II staff sergeant who died last October, applied for permission to bury her husband's ashes in Arlington National Cemetery. As it happened, Hero Thompson, a Distinguished Service Cross holder, was also ex-Convict Thompson, one of eleven U.S. Communist Party leaders who were convicted in 1949 of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. Government. Nonetheless, the Army approved the widow's request...
...Eleven-Year Cycle. The astronomers will be part of a "solar patrol" established to warn astronauts against possible danger from the sun, which by 1968 or 1969 should reach a peak in its eleven-year cycle of activity. During these years, great storms will erupt on the solar surface; there will be a dramatic increase in the number of dark sunspots and bright flares. Using both optical and radio telescopes, the patrolmen will be particularly anxious to spot the flares, for they always accompany the sun's violent expulsion of swiftly moving atomic particles...