Word: eleven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DREAM, HIS REST, by John Berryman. Concluding the cycle of poems begun in 77 Dream Songs about a white American in early middle age, Berryman comments on life in the last eleven years and the whole range of human experience...
...paid out $700,000 on 528 claims that originally totaled $7,839,519; another 98 claims were rejected and seven were simply dropped. Eleven are still outstanding. "I think that's very generous, considering how these people live," says one officer. "I would even say overgenerous." Even so, the U.S. apparently feels that something more is still owed. Washington has offered to donate a $150,000 desalinization plant to the village for drinking water. With plenty of coffee, wine and cognac on hand, Palomares wants a bigger unit to provide water for irrigation. The plant in any case...
...level." Inflation, the Viet Nam war, and higher imports (see following story) share the blame. Only because many foreign investors poured funds into the U.S. was the nation able to achieve a $150 million surplus in its balance of payments. It was the first such surplus in eleven years...
...Henry, whom he describes in his latest collection as "an imaginary character (not the poet, not me), a white American in early middle age, sometimes in blackface, who has suffered an irreversible loss." Henry's world is modern man's world, particularly the world of the past eleven years, and embraces the whole range of human experience...
...Long Island, Negro students and some whites at Lawrence High School staged a two-day walkout to protest, among other things, the administration's failure to hire more Negro teachers. They returned after agreement was reached with school officials on eleven points, including the hiring of more blacks, the installation of a painting of Dr. Martin Luther King at the school and time off for black students on Dr. King's birthday...