Word: eleven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Music Hall runs a picture as long as it keeps earning at least $102,000 a weekend (actually Thursday through Sunday). Both Random Harvest and The Greatest Show on Earth ran for eleven weeks, but did not gross as much as the others...
Destroyers & Dinghies. Scott has not had an indolent moment since. He has been, at one time or another-and usually simultaneously-a successful author (eleven books), artist (exhibitions in London and New York), and TV commentator (covering the Royal Wedding). A British navy commander in World War II, he served on destroyers and gunboats, took part in the raid on Dieppe, designed the camouflage scheme that was adopted by the British Admiralty for all ships on duty in the Atlantic. Today, a world-renowned naturalist, conservationist and ornithologist, he is a councilor of the London Zoo and keeper...
...Ruddy Bligh. In last month's elimination trials off Newport, Scott surprised U.S. yachtsmen with his pluck and precision. Balding, ruddy-faced, he bossed Sovereign's eleven-man crew like a budding Captain Bligh, beat Kurrewa V, the favored British boat, six times in eight races. Experts found plenty to criticize in Sovereign's construction: her untapered, top-heavy mast, her primitive rigging, her poorly cut sails. But they had nothing but praise for Scott. "I've known Peter Scott for a long time," said Bob Bavier, who will pilot Constellation, the U.S. defender...
Students will go through a threeyear, eleven-month course of study, with two weeks off at Christmas and in August. The atmosphere will be permissive; students are called "colleagues," and rules are called "expectations." But with most courses in give and take seminars or tutorial sessions, the school hopes to avoid the academic laxness that a free rein might encourage. "It could be Suntan U., but it won't be," says Florida-born George Baughman, 49, who resigned three years ago as vice president for business affairs at New York University to head New College...
...encourage even more capital ists to do business with them. Last week a Soviet trade delegation arrived in Stockholm to see if anyone wanted to build another pulp mill. And Soviet officials stirred new interest among British businessmen by announcing that they had the go-ahead to negotiate for eleven more chemical and fertilizer plants worth about $280 million...