Word: eleven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...twelve years since the end of the Korean War, eleven of the 21 captured G.I.s who defected to Red China have come forlornly home. Last week turncoat No. 12 returned.* By comparison with his predecessors, ex-Corporal William C. White, 35, a Negro from Plumerville, Ark., had fared well during his 11½ years behind the Bamboo Curtain. A high school dropout in Kansas City, White got a law degree in Peking, studied Russian and Chinese literature and worked as a translator. White also married a Chinese girl, who accompanied him with their two children aged six and four...
...right-wing Jana Sangh Party wanted more than vague metallic threats. It wanted war−and now. Trains and buses brought adherents from as far as Jammu, north of Kashmir, and more than 250,000 saffron-clad demonstrators marched from the ancient Red Fort to Parliament, led by eleven buglers and 200 men on motor scooters. In unison, the throng chanted such slogans as, "Shastri, you cannot beg peace, you have to win it!" and "Tit for tat is the right policy against Pakistan...
...clear of broader questions of political or moral guilt, insisting on evidence of "concrete murder, precisely proved." Even so, there was evidence enough to sentence six men, including Wilhelm Boger, 59, the "Butcher of Auschwitz" (TIME, Jan. 17, 1964), to West Germany's maximum penalty: life imprisonment. To eleven more defendants went sentences ranging from 39 months to 14 years for complicity in the mass murders. Only three of the defendants were acquitted for lack of evidence...
...narrow road caused the ac cident, argued Costanzo. "It had nothing to do with oversteer, understeer, neutral steer or whatever.After 43 days in court, the jury wound up more impressed by the circumstances of the accident than by the configuration of the Corvair. By a vote of eleven to one, the jury acquitted G.M. of responsibility...
Divorced. Byron Janis, 37, virtuoso U.S. concert pianist; by June Dickson-Wright, 33, daughter of British Surgeon Arthur Dickson-Wright; on grounds of incompatibility; after eleven years of marriage, one child; in Juarez, Mexico. Died. Shirley Jackson, 45, master of seance fiction, author of The Lottery, chilling tale of a 20th century New England village's annual rite of human sacrifice, and dozens more stories and novels (Hangsaman, We Have Always Lived in the Castle) so horrific that it always surprised readers to learn that all this came from a contented wife and good-humored mother of four...