Word: eleven
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...reason for the delay is rooted in still more ancient history. The Christian Democrats have proposed emergency legislation three times in the past eleven years, but since it would amount to a constitutional revision, they need a two-thirds majority in the Bundestag to enact it. Willy Brandt's Social Democrats have always opposed the bills, partly because they disagreed with various clauses, but mainly because of the implacable opposition of the trade unions to the whole idea. Union leaders are still haunted by memories of 1933, when Adolf Hitler, upon the famous pretext of the Reichstag fire, used...
...last week it failed. At Likati, a village 65 miles from Buta, Hoare's men ran into three Portuguese hostages-all impaled on spears. Nine other Europeans lay dead or dying along the road. When the columns rolled into Buta, the rebels had already fled and only eleven survivors were anywhere to be found. Two nights earlier, the Simbas had thrown 31 Belgian and Dutch priests to the crocodiles. Militarily, the operation was a success: Hoare lost only four men in wiping out the last large pocket of Simba territory. But in all, it had cost the lives...
...disaster, for one thing: A. J. Foyt, Rodger Ward and Parnelli Jones crashed in practice, and if the three top Indy veterans couldn't control their cars, what could be expected from the eleven green rookies in the race? There was the Great Tire War between Firestone and Goodyear (TIME, May 28), and the knock-down Battle of the Enginemakers between Ford, which entered its first Memorial Day 500 just two years ago, and Offenhauser, which had ruled the Brickyard for 18 straight years...
Despite success, Marvin will have a hard time forsaking tough roles com pletely. "I love violence," he says, and it is ingrained. After getting bounced from eleven different prep schools, he tried war. As a Marine scout-sniper, he made 21 Pacific island landings until "some Jap bastard on Saipan" got him just below the spine; he spent 13 months learning how to move again. "You Finked Out." As an actor, he specialized in killers, but he became best known as a cop. Lieut. Ballinger of TV's M Squad. Even there he was tough-"no broads, no mother...
...Electric a month ago drew black headlines and angry cries of "Paris is not Arizona!" when it laid off 500 workers. When the U.S.-owned Beloit-Italia paper machinery plant near Turin tried to lay off 300 employees recently, workers invaded the factory in protest and occupied it for eleven days. They were fed through the fences by women and children, and the parish priest even came on Sunday to say Mass before the factory gate. What company wants to battle odds like that...