Word: eleven
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...SCHOOL INTEGRATION. Eleven years after the Supreme Court's desegregation ruling, school integration throughout most of the South has barely begun. In five states the overall integration rate (the percentage of each state's Negro pupils in schools with whites) is less than 1%; Texas leads the remaining six states with a rate of 7.26%. Dismal as these statistics are, it is also a fact that more progress has been achieved in the last two years than most observers thought possible. For one thing, Negro children have now been enrolled without trouble in some of the rural areas...
...Porter conceded, "there were bright spots and high spots," and the Peabody board then proceeded to honor eleven. Among them: CBS Reports, Robert Saudek's Profiles in Courage (NBC), ABC News Commentator William Lawrence, the color documentary The Louvre (NBC), Joyce Hall for sponsoring Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC), and Julia Child for The French Chef (WGBH Boston...
...when he won last month's $25,000 Blue Grass Stakes in Kentucky. Still, come last week, the 100,000-odd fans who jammed ancient Churchill Downs found themselves another favorite: Wheatley Stable's Bold Lad. After all, Bold Lad had won nine out of his last eleven races, and he was being ridden by Bill Hartack, whose Derby luck was all good: a remarkable four victories and a second in six tries. At post time the odds on Bold Lad were 9-5. Lucky Debonair was practically a long shot...
Over the Shoulder. Maybe it was Lucky Debonair. By the time the eleven-horse field rounded the clubhouse turn, Willie had Lucky Debonair in the lead. Hunched high over the withers, keeping a tight rein, he contentedly allowed Flag Raiser, a 17-1 shot, to stay close alongside. "He didn't worry me," said the Shoe later. "It was the horses behind that...
...tougher and firmer" than McDonald in the coming negotiations, but also added: "We will do everything humanly possible to avoid a strike." On the steel side, Wheeling Steel, the nation's tenth largest producer, agreed to abide by the final terms, but decided to withdraw from the eleven-company bargaining team. Norton Simon, the California industrialist who took over as chairman of Wheeling last year, complained that the steel industry "seems to live in a state of constant crisis. Wheeling can't afford that, and I doubt that the industry can either...