Word: eleven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slash as he saw fit. But when Cannon died last year, the House Appropriations chairmanship went to Texas' George Mahon, a middle-of-the-road Democrat, who set about taming the Tartar. Though he let Passman stay on as chairman of the subcommittee, he pared it from eleven to nine members, most of whom favor foreign aid. Passman found himself powerless. Where, in his heyday, subcommittee hearings had dragged on for months, this year's sessions were rushed through in eleven weeks by the new membership. Under Mahon's orders, Chairman Passman was not even allowed...
...dawn one morning last week, war came to the dusty Pakistan village of Dhankeal, near Lahore. Mystère jets of the Indian air force slammed rockets into a train at the station, killing three passengers and wounding eleven. Wakened by the explosions, a young peasant named Zakaullah clambered to the roof of his mud hut. "I saw planes in the sky," he said. "And suddenly they started throwing things with fire coming from them. Then one plane started to fall. It came down with a big noise...
...South Carolina's Ned Jarrett: the accident-plagued Southern 500 stockcar race, averaging 115.8 m.p.h. in his 1965 Ford despite an overheated engine; at Darlington, S.C. Breakdowns eliminated all the other big-name competitors, and Jarrett coasted home eleven laps ahead of his closest pursuer...
Such was the skewering George Balanchine & Co. received during their first two trips to London in 1950 and 1952. In the years since, the troupe somehow always managed to bypass England during its repeated tours of Europe. Last week, winding up an eleven-week swing across Europe, the New York City Ballet was back in London. If any memorial was to be erected this time, it would be for all the gallant critics who fell at the feet of Balanchine...
...down the second largest court judgment against the electrical companies since the Great Conspiracy was uncovered. He ordered the General Electric Co. and the Westinghouse Electric Corp. to pay $16.8 million in damages to the Ohio Valley Electric Corp. and its subsidiary, Indiana-Kentucky Electric Corp., for overcharging on eleven steam-turbine generators that the two Midwest utilities purchased...