Word: eleven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...form of aid, direct injections into national budgets, has been mostly dropped, except for South Viet Nam, Korea, Laos, Jordan and the Congo. Military aid, once the source of sour jokes about dictators who "imported 5,000 Communists" to scare the U.S. into supplying arms, now goes mostly to eleven nations ringing the Russian-Chinese land mass. No aid at all goes to Communist nations any more...
...lifeline that tethered him to the boat or by grabbing the boat's rigging. Worst of all were his hallucinations, the result probably of taking too many benzedrine pep pills. Once he imagined that a "monster" had invaded the boat's cabin and thrown his eleven-year-old son overboard...
With a Double A. For part of the Braves' success, no explanation was needed. Rightfielder Henry Aaron was batting .332 last week, with 29 doubles, 27 homers and 63 RBIs. With a lifetime batting average of .320 for eleven big-league seasons, he is the best hitter in baseball. "When Henry looks out at that pitcher," says Bobby Bragan, "it's like an animal stalking its prey." Says Los Angeles' Sandy Koufax, baseball's No. 1 pitcher, with 21 victories already in the bank: "It's no wonder his name begins with a double...
...airlines with more than 6,000 communities that are not, carry businessmen, government officials and celebrities where they need to go in a hurry, and perform hundreds of functions from serving as ambulances to charting forest fires. In the past ten years, while 13 major airlines have shrunk to eleven and the ranks of feeder lines have remained at 13, the number of air-taxi operators certified by the Federal Aviation Agency has nearly doubled, from...
...Will Be Boys. This unique bit of entrepreneurism was conceived eleven years ago by Jean-Pierre Bruggeman, 44, and Jean Thomachot, 39, then French wine merchants in Algeria. They discovered that there was more money to be made in casks for shipping than in the wine. Extending the idea, they founded an investment company called Algeco to buy up railroad tank cars at prices ranging from $7,000 to $26,000, then leased the cars to oil companies and skimmed off 20% of the revenue as a management fee. Today Algeco owns more than 8,000 tank cars that haul...