Word: eleven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been struck; a Cologne record company brought out The Queen Elizabeth Foxtrot. In Bonn, 15,000 champagne glasses were ordered, and mobile lavatories were trundled in from Cologne for a state reception for 2,500 at Augustusburg Castle. It was all part of the feverish preparations for the eleven-day, 1,200-mile tour by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip of ten West German cities, the first state visit by a reigning British monarch since Edward VII paid his last call on Kaiser Wilhelm...
Short Cut. Suddenly, however, the partnership threatens to fall apart-largely over a convoy of eleven heavy trucks. The trucks, operated by the Uganda army, ran into a police ambush on a lonely bush road in southwestern Kenya. Their cargo was hardly of the common-market variety: 75 tons of Chinese weapons, which they were convoying from Tanzania to Uganda. What were they doing in Kenya? Taking a short cut, said the convoy commander, and besides, the direct road between Tanzania and Uganda was too muddy...
...just told them I'm going away for the summer. They'd be too upset if I said I wasn't coming back." On that note, lifelong British Nanny Maud Shaw, 59, who has tended Jacqueline Kennedy's children since Caroline was eleven days old, announced that she was retiring to the countryside. Jackie, staying on in London after helping dedicate the Runnymede memorial to her late husband, put an ad in the papers for an "extremely reliable and competent young woman, 25-35, to look after girl of seven and boy four in New York...
...Star Pitcher Whitey Ford (1964 record: 17-6) lost his fourth straight game and was banished briefly to the bullpen-prompting one wag to remark, "This year, the bullpen is mightier than the Ford." And all this while, Al Lopez's White Sox were winning nine out of eleven and leading the American League by two full games...
...heritage-through dance, through "the exuberance of his jazz, the ecstasy of his spirituals, and the dark rapture of his blues." Trouble is, nobody is listening-in the U.S., that is. But in Europe the message is echoing loud and clear: the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, consisting of eleven young Negro dancers, has created perhaps the biggest sensation on the Continent since the tour of Jerome Robbins' Ballets: U.S.A. six years...