Word: elevens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Meanwhile, Associate Editor A. T. ("Bob") Baker got ready for his 24th cover story since he joined TIME'S staff just ten years ago. His first was about President Truman as Man of the Year (TIME, Jan. 3, 1949). In the next two years he wrote eleven more before he went off to London as a correspondent. While abroad, he did much of the reporting for cover stories on Thornton Wilder, Joyce Gary, Claire Bloom and Audrey Hepburn. Since his return in January 1954, Baker has not only written twelve other cover stories but also edited those on King...
...Robert Graetz, white pastor of a Negro Lutheran church and also an active boycott leader. No one was injured, but Graetz and his family might well have been slaughtered as they ran from the house in panic; in their front yard police found still another bomb, made of eleven sticks of dynamite, which failed to explode because of a defective fuse...
...some thought to be toppling, Nikita Khrushchev was in fine tippling form last week. Tossing off the vodka at New Year's Eve party, Khrushchev told all within hearing that Stalin, whom he had described as a murdering madman only eleven months ago, had in fact done so much good that his mistakes must be overlooked. Cried Nikita: "Stalin was a fighter of imperialists . . . Imperialists call us Stalinists . . . When it comes to fighting imperialists we are all Stalinists...
Though Lieut. General Raymond A. Wheeler, U.N. salvage chief and retired U.S. Army engineer, had listed some 50 obstructions to be cleared from the canal, only eleven of these have turned out to be major. Many are barges or fishing vessels so small that salvage vessels can haul them away in a few hours. One mighty heave by the two big lifting vessels pulled away half of the Firdan bridge, which was one of the eleven major obstructions. Anglo-French salvage vessels have all but cleared away a third at Port Said. Last week U.N. salvage ships, including British...
...fifth grade studying reading might have three groups-one reading at third-grade level, another at fifth-grade, the rest plunging into such classics as Moby Dick and The Swiss Family Robinson. The schools are also on the prowl for such students with a special talent as the eleven-year-old girl who shows promise of becoming a topnotch composer...