Word: eleven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days before the state committee met, Philadelphia's old-line Democratic organization endorsed Justice Musmanno, 67, a colorful, controversial lawyer who has written eleven books, helped defend Sacco and Vanzetti in their Massachusetts murder trial, was a judge at the Nurnberg war-crimes trials, is so ardent an anti-Communist that he once implored baseball's Cincinnati Reds to change their nickname. With the Philadelphia machine behind him, Musmanno easily wrapped up Dave Lawrence's Pittsburgh fief, won the state committee's endorsement...
Buffalo Appetite. An untidy collection of eleven hamlets with a population of 16,000, Hoaimy lies in central Viet Nam on the banks of the Lai Giang River just before it flows into the South China Sea. There are no roads in or out of the village. There is no bridge across the river. For centuries, Hoaimy has asked nothing of the world beyond the mountains and the sea except that it provide a market for the village's rice crop, which realizes some $400,000 a year...
...prison and $26,000 in fines. During 17 days of testimony by 67 witnesses, two of the swindlers swore that they paid $50,000 to duck indictment, and they said that one-third of the money went to Cohn. Nearing the end of its deliberation, the jury reportedly stood eleven to one for convicting Cohn on at least one count of perjury. "This is a very big disappointment," said the foreman later. "It's like being left at the altar." The anticlimax left ordinary citizens equally disappointed and understandably puzzled. Why did Judge Dawson excuse Mrs. Aribelle Mabrey...
Pitching to Women. Consolidated and eleven other major companies, which together ring up 75% of all cigar sales, make a range of cigars from diminutive cigarillos to big, blunt coronas. The sales gains are due almost entirely to the cigarillos, particularly those with plastic tips, that have been grabbed up by reformed cigarette smokers. In some cities, cigarillo sales are up as much as 400%, and wholesalers are rationing supplies. Many cigar makers just cannot keep up with demand; unlike high-speed automated cigarette lines, cigar making still involves slow hand operation...
...minute film, which has been shown at eleven other universities including Yale and Columbia, claims that 75 per cent of South Vietnam, representing half the country's population, is controlled by the Viet Cong...