Word: eleven
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Lady Bird Johnson, in St. Petersburg to give diplomas to the eleven men and eight women of VISTA'S graduating class, explained the idea behind the organization. Said she: "America is many things. But above all, more than any nation in the history of man, ever since the first frontiersman picked up his musket to help protect a neighbor, we have been a nation of volunteers. We have been a land in which the individual says, 'My neighbor needs me. I will do something.' " After the ceremony, Lady Bird toured the nearby Negro communities of Ridgecrest...
When the convention opened, Elijah drove the four miles in the midst of an eleven-car motorcade, was surrounded by a phalanx of Fruit of Islam members inside the hall. Newsmen were frisked head to toe before entering, even had their shoes checked for hollowed-out heels. Lining the fern-decorated stage and directly below it was a human shield of 55 Fruit of Islam guards, and scores more patrolled the aisles...
Hate Campaign. The Syrians charged that Attassi had obtained from Hakemi eleven shells of a new Soviet antiaircraft gun of the Syrian armed forces and had handed them over to Walter Snowdon, second secretary of the U.S. embassy in Damascus, who was expelled (TIME, Feb. 26). Washington denied the spy charges, but not very hard. Instead, the U.S. concentrated on protesting Syria's brutal treatment of Attassi. Before going to trial, he had been tortured by electricity, beaten, brainwashed and starved. U.S. officials were not allowed to see him in jail, he was not provided with legal counsel...
...varsity swimmers took nine of eleven events, including both relays, on their way to victory. Only Cornell sophomore Ed Gray, with firsts in, the individual medley and the backstroke, prevented a total rout by the Crimson...
...Eulenfeld blew an engine going into the east turn at 160 m.p.h. His 1963 Ford caromed off the retaining wall, skidded 200 yds. on its top and burst into flames. Before anyone could bat an eye, the track was covered with slewing, sliding cars, piling into each other. Eleven were more or less reduced to junk, but, incredibly, nobody was seriously injured...