Word: eleven
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...Willis has lately found himself the target of civil rights groups, who charge that he has pursued a go-slow policy in integrating the city's 550 public schools and has gerrymandered school districts in order to promote de facto segregation. For a while it appeared that the eleven-member Chicago school board would not renew Willis' contract, which expires in August. But then, at a recent meeting, the board voted to give him another four-year contract-with the firm understanding that Willis would retire in October 1966, when he reaches 65. Even that failed to mollify...
...Effects of Despair. In terms of overall performance, South Viet Nam's military establishment cannot be rated as anything better than middling. After all, it has neither won nor approached victory in eleven years of existence. Many units break and run in battle, as did the 39th Ranger Battalion earlier this year. The 39th became known as "the roadrunners." But during the Quangngai fight "the roadrunners" stood their ground on a conical hill called Nuitran. There 108 of them were wiped out, erasing in the process the slur on their battalion's name...
Through the year, an eleven-man "Committee on the Graduate Study of Education" has met every Wednesday; last week it held a two-day windup session. Aided by a $25,000 grant from the Carnegie Foundation, committee members have visited schools of education across the country and invited specialists to Cambridge for consultation. Meanwhile, a permanent research staff has written hundreds of pages on the historical development of the ed school and summarized earlier studies by other universities and the federal government...
...dramatic advances and development of facilities are in a sense the climax to a long-range program that began with the appointment of Dr. Dana L. Farnsworth, then of M.I.T., as director (and as Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene) eleven years ago. Farnsworth led the long search for funds for a new building, planned it carefully, and has shaped the very-much-expanded facilities in his own image. Dr. Farnsworth himself is an institution. The recipient of about as many honorary degrees as anyone else at Harvard, he is widely regarded as the "dean" of American college health care...
Died. Dr. Russell LaFayette Cecil, 83, co-author and editor, with Dr. Robert F. Loeb, of the Textbook of Medicine, considered a standard all over the world (eleven editions since 1927), himself a leader in the battle against arthritis, who created one of the first U.S. arthritis clinics in 1922, developed the agglutination test, and was among the first to treat the disease with gold salts; of a brain tumor; in Manhattan...