Word: eleven
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Draper hopes that supersonic transports will make the city a world trade center, and last week was in Nigeria trying to drum up business. Other boom boomers are the city's two newspapers, which have printed no fewer than eleven editorials rapping citizens for grousing about the noise, and Mayor Wilkes, who helped block a move by the city council to condemn the test. And there are several working girls who complained, after bad weather had canceled a 7 a.m. boom one day, that they had overslept...
...governing South American colony, Jagan has developed into a curious combination of Castroite and racist, preaching Communism while leading some 290,000 East Indians against 330,000 anti-Jagan Negroes and whites split between two major parties. Full independence was expected this year or next. But last October, after eleven weeks of strikes and violence, Colonial Secretary Duncan Sandys indefinitely postponed complete freedom for the tiny, strife-torn land. Sandys ordered new elections by the end of 1964, and decreed that they would be held under proportional representation instead of the simple majority rule that Jagan prefers. Sandys' obvious...
Last week, as more and more sugar workers stayed home out of fear, only six of the colony's eleven sugar factories were still grinding, and those six were only operating part-time. If the strike goes on much longer, there will be no hope at all of producing the usual 300,000 to 400,000 tons of sugar that represent a large part of the colony's foreign exchange. "So far, our strike has been partial," said a Jagan union leader last week. "From now on, it is a general strike...
Britain's "eleven-plus exam," an IQ measurement plus tests in arithmetic and English composition, was set up in 1944 as the fairest way to channel children into state secondary schools geared to their abilities. But it has turned out to be the infamous instru ment that with dread finality determines whether a child aged 10½ to 11½ is to be high or low in Britain's totemistic society, whether he gets topflight pre-university training or a quick go at a lesser school...
...course, it turns out not to be that bad. Nonetheless, some ten people were culled out over the training period. In most cases, the wisdom of 'selecting out' was apparent, but a couple were puzzling. The selection board of our program met twice, at four and eleven weeks. Each time there were victims. I think it would be kinder of the Peace Corps to make its selections earlier in the program; ideally, it might be done before anyone arrives at the training site. As the date for final selection approaches (in our case, two days before the termination...