Word: eleven
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...Tainted with scandal, inefficient, poorly staffed, costly beyond belief, the county penal institutions had the hard-earned distinction of being one of the most embarrassing aspects of Massachusetts. In what was thought to be a genuine attempt to correct this situation, Governor Volpe convened a special commission consisting of eleven of the most respected men in the Commonwealth to study the county system of correction...
...messianic manner, Frei has gone over all the programs once more during the election campaign. He has held rallies up and down the 2,600-mile length of his country and spoken time after time over radio and TV. Though his Christian Democrats face the vote-splitting opposition of eleven other parties, they are still expected to win 56 to 60 Assembly seats and pick up two Senate seats for a total of eleven...
...begins the 23rd Psalm, as revised by an eleven-year-old delinquent boy at the Erie County Detention Home in Buffalo. Another young lawbreaker has produced a modern equivalent of Jesus' parable about the one sheep out of 100 that went astray; in his version a used-car-lot owner goes looking for the "heap" that someone "snitched...
Crossed Fingers. At the Joint Economic Committee hearings, Economist Seymour Harris of the University of California at San Diego pointed out that eleven of 15 so-called "leading indicators" are on the rise. Said Budget Director Kermit Gordon: "The present healthy expansion will keep going through a fifth consecutive year." About the only word of caution came from Raymond J. Saulnier, who had been President Eisenhower's chief economist; pointing to a rapidly lengthening work week and "incipient inflation," he said that the economy shows signs of "overheating," and he warned, "Don't push your luck...
Contentious 5%. In the race for this prize, the U.S. system, pioneered by Radio Corp. of America, has one important advantage: it is time-tested, while the others contain experimental elements. The U.S. has had an eleven-year global monopoly on color TV, and both Canada and Japan use American apparatus. The U.S.'s competitors point out that the three systems are very similar; only 5% of the parts are different, and on that the battle hinges...