Word: eleven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pushed ahead, in a House Judiciary Subcommittee and in the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Administration's voting-rights bill, toughening its provisions. The House subcommittee voted the measure out, eleven to one, after recommending that federal registrars be installed anywhere a local court confirms that discrimination exists. The Senate version, cleared for the floor by a twelve-to-four vote, would also broaden the measure, but by applying it automatically to areas where fewer than 25% of the eligible persons of any race are registered. This would catch five counties in Florida, seven in Arkansas, and an undetermined number...
...They could realize the release of crippling pressure on the patient's nerves. The window in the clivus was sealed with a piece of the patient's own muscle, and the tedious job of putting his delicate structures back in place began. The whole operation took eleven hours...
...Only eleven airlines fly the 285,000 miles of U.S. trunk routes, and seven American steamship lines dock in U.S. ports. By contrast, nearly 100 railroads -the greatest conglomeration anywhere in the world-compete unevenly over 214,000 miles of Class I track, both among themselves and with a growing number of trucks, buses, automobiles and barges. The result is massive inefficiency and chronic headaches for the U.S. railroad industry, which has failed to keep pace with the vast changes in public transportation...
...significant such case to date, two ICC examiners recommended joining the Pennsylvania Railroad, the nation's largest, and the New York Central, its third largest. The recommendation, which came after 14 months of hearings in 18 cities and testimony from 450 witnesses, must be approved by the full eleven-member ICC board; the odds are in favor of approval...
...damages that school's good name (TIME, Dec. 18). It remains a brash and dreary jape, climaxed by a sequence in which Notre Dame's football squad flies off to a mythical Middle Eastern sheikdom to cavort with harem houris, then takes the field against an Arab eleven coached by a wandering Jewish U-2 pilot...