Word: eleven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week, representatives of the eleven-nation U.N. Security Council filed in and out of U Thant's office, 38 stories above Manhattan's East River...
There remain, of course, many stumbling blocks. Russia was insisting that all eleven members of the Security Council have a hand in the advisory group, and Cyprus' President Makarios grumbled that his tiny nation had room for only 7,000 foreign troops-even though an estimated 30,000 Greek Cypriots are under arms. But at least the diplomatic atmosphere had changed from blackest pessimism to guarded hope...
Peace had been hammered out in an eleven-day conference at Barzani's mountain headquarters at Rania. Statements by Barzani and Aref sealed the pact. To safeguard national unity, stop bloodshed and end a fratricidal fight, said Barzani, "we have decided to take the initiative in ordering a cease-fire." Declared Aref: "In the name of Allah the all-merciful, we have decreed the following in our desire to restore normal life and end the bloodletting." There followed a nine-point communique covering everything from "recognition of the national rights of our Kurdish brethren" to general amnesty...
...Satena (for "Service to the National Territories"). The Colombian air force contributed the planes and the pilots, but Satena's other expenses had to be met from revenues. Charging one-fourth the fares of commercial lines, it still manages to stay in the black. Now Satena has eleven cargo planes making 35 trips a week over jungles and mountains to 52 communities-wherever it is needed and where no commercial airlines...
...where all the men and many of the women have advanced degrees." In the common - or uncommon-schools of such centers, says Platt, "whole classes of 130s and 140s may be seen, from kindergarten through high school." Among the results: a 13-year-old studying atomic physics seriously, an eleven-year-old taking college courses, an eight-year-old doing graduate work in mathematics...