Word: eleven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...students--43 per cent of the class--who answered the questionaire, 61 per cent--292 students--say that they would "serve' if all their applications for deferment are turned down. Eleven per cent--52 students--plan to leave the country, another 11 per cent--51 students--indicate that they would rather go to jail than serve, and 6 per cent--28 students--say they will fight induction in the courts. The remaining 12 per cent--57 students--did not classify themselves...
...being used as a sanctuary by Communist troops. President Johnson chose Old Asia Hand Chester Bowles, 66, U.S. Ambassador to India, for the mission. He will try to work out an accommodation with Sihanouk, an old acquaintance, that would guarantee Cambodia's borders. Though Sihanouk last week accepted eleven airplanes, including three MIG-17 jets, and several dozen heavy guns from Communist China, he was talking buoyantly about the possibility of resuming diplomatic relations with the U.S., broken since...
...hopping 22,600 miles to nine African capitals in eleven days is a junket to curdle the courage of the strong. But Hubert H. Humphrey possesses a special brand of fortitude. Last week, as his vice-presidential safari winged wearily across Africa from mishap to minor disaster, the indefatigable Humphrey averaged less than four hours' sleep a night and, seemingly impervious to a steam-heated climate, came up triumphantly talking at each stop. Africans heard his voice even as he flew overhead in Air Force Two. To soothe nations miffed because they were left out of his tour, Humphrey...
...lens he found in his father's pawnshop. He was stunned by the sight of craters when he first turned his telescope on the moon, and has been star-struck ever since. Beginning his observations in 1950, he patiently peered through a variety of homemade telescopes for eleven years without finding anything new. He was on the verge of surrendering and concentrating on his $150-per-month job as guitar instructor when he spotted his first new comet in the constellation...
...three concerns-American President Lines and Pacific Far East Lines, both based in San Francisco, and Seattle's American Mail Lines-would form a combine with an estimated $156 million in annual revenues, $261 million assets and 51 ships (plus eleven more on order) plying mostly the transpacific and Far East trade routes. The new firm, probably to be named American Steamship Lines, would automatically take its place among the world's top steamship companies...