Word: eleven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...World War II approached, Sinclair returned to writing full time. He began the eleven-volume series of novels that had as its unlikely hero Lanny Budd, a wealthy young American art dealer who wangles a secretary's job at the 1919 Paris peace conference and manages to find a front-row seat at nearly every historic event from then through 1949. The Lanny Budd novels contain in simple form a fictionalized, you-are-there chronicle of the 20th century. Dragon's Teeth (1942), third in the series, describes the rise of Hitler and won Sinclair a Pulitzer Prize...
...Soviet troops in the country-many Czechoslovaks remain unimpressed and openly rebellious. Some 100,000 students staged nationwide three-day sit-ins to protest some of the executive committee's Russian-imposed decisions. Workers supported the students' defiance with short work stoppages. Members of Czechoslovakia's eleven cultural associations met to declare "more urgently than before" their concern for the "preservation of the humane character of our socialist life...
...chooses to be stubborn, the Justice Department can still carry the case to the Supreme Court, provided it files an appeal by next week. Still pending before the ICC are eleven other consolidation proposals. They date all the way back...
...involved a week of swift, secret transatlantic negotiations with the "Lions" and "Tigers"-code names for Atlantic Richfield and Sinclair. If everything works out, British Petroleum will buy an Atlantic Richfield refinery in Texas, a Sinclair refinery in Pennsylvania, and a string of 5,600 Sinclair gas stations in eleven Eastern states and the District of Columbia. The deal hangs on Justice Department approval of a pending merger of Sinclair and Atlantic Richfield, which now may well pick up speed. One Justice hang-up has been that the merger would lessen competition in the East, where both companies have...
Along the journey to nowhere, Sellers displays a few glimmers of the comic genius that once made him seem like a chip off the old Chaplin, notably in a hilarious Spanish-Yiddish-English brouhaha involving his mother and eleven Mexican whiplash-injury clients. But most of the time, the movie reduces him to elephantine gestures and TV-sized jokes. As he runs into the fadeout, a passing hippie asks him where he is going. "I don't know," Sellers answers. "There must be someplace." The line sums up both this meandering movie and the flickering career of a gifted...