Word: eleven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...running around. Don Drysdale, the Dodger starter, was out so fast that he could have watched himself on instant replay. Minnesota Second Baseman Frank Quilici opened the third inning with a double, then Drysdale fell down trying to field a bunt, and by the time the Twins got bored, eleven men had batted and six had scored-three of them on Zoilo Versalles' 400-ft. homer into the leftfield bleachers. "I had bad command," Drysdale said afterward. But so, for that matter, did the Twins' Mudcat Grant. Each team collected ten hits; the difference was that Los Angeles...
...industry's eleven companies are also working on some major innovations. Lockheed is experimenting with an odd-looking, stub-winged plane that takes off as a helicopter with rotors spinning overhead, folds the rotors into its body, then flies on at speeds of up to 500 m.p.h. Vertol is designing a tilt-winged aircraft that also lifts off as a copter, with its wings in a vertical position, then speeds forward as the wings are tilted horizontally and propellers take over to pull it along. Hughes's experimental XV-9A shoots hot gases out of rotor-tip vents...
...Brazil contemplates the unsettling results of the gubernatorial elections just held in eleven states (see THE HEMISPHERE), another kind of vote is making its impact on the country. It is a vote of confidence in Brazil's economy, and it is being cast every week by foreign investors...
Gubernatorial elections took place in eleven of Brazil's twenty-two states October 3. They showed a trend to the left, but not to the radical left. They solved some of the government's problems, but they created others...
...opposition to government candidates in ten of the eleven states (including Guanabara and Minas Gerais) came from candidates backed by a coalition of the Social Democratic Party--a tame opposition that votes with the government in the Federal congress--and the Brazilian Workers Party, a more potent opposition group...