Word: eleven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Having breathed new strife into folk music's repertoire, Dylan's muse seems a little winded, and some of his new delirious diatribes have a wheezy, hollow sound. Devotees will still enjoy his rasping version of his hit tune, Like a Rolling Stone, as well as his eleven-minute talking blues, Desolation Row, where "everybody is making love or else expecting rain...
...Blunted & Defeated." The intensified U.S. role in Viet Nam did not come cheaply. In the first week of November alone, 70 Americans died, the highest seven-day U.S. toll since the American entry into the war eleven years ago. Yet the results continued to be encouraging. After meeting with President Johnson last week, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara told reporters: "The South Vietnamese, with our help, have blunted and defeated the Viet Cong monsoon offensive, and the Viet Cong have paid a very heavy price indeed...
With no government or university support, Laborit works, with eleven assistants, in the same crowded four-room lab he built eight years ago, and maintains with income from his discoveries...
Author Thorwald considers his sub ject in four tidy divisions. ∙ CRIMINAL IDENTIFICATION, the funda mental problem of detection, began to be a science in 1879, when Alphonse Bertillon introduced a system of anthropometry involving some eleven bodily measurements of each criminal. Fingerprinting, long a form of signature in the Orient, was introduced to Europe by Britain's William Herschel, and it had to compete with anthropometry until 1904, when two prisoners at Fort Leavenworth were found to have identi cal features, practically identical anthropometric measurements and identical names: Will West. Only their fingerprints were different, and within seven...
...human tissue under the microscope. For most of the century, the profession was widely regarded as legalized ghouling, but in 1889 a French pathologist named Alexandre Lacassagne cracked the celebrated case of the Millery Corpse-a grisly mess of rotting flesh and jumbled bones that, after an autopsy lasting eleven days, was identified largely by study of the hair and bones as the mortal remains of a smalltime Paris playboy. The public was profoundly impressed, and the golden age of forensic medicine began...