Word: nine
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Unimpressed by Beck Sr.'s shouts and convinced that his boy had indeed done something wrong, a jury of nine men and three women found the younger Beck guilty on two counts of grand larceny. Then prosecutors turned their attention to the man who was standing behind him. Accused of grand larceny in the sale of still another Teamsters' Cadillac, Dave Beck Sr. will go on trial next week in the same court...
...World. For once, Joe Kennedy underestimated himself: he and Rose had a mere nine children-but Joe's fortune is reckoned at more than $200 million. He became general manager of the huge Fore River shipbuilding yard at Quincy during World War I, joined the investment banking house of Hayden, Stone & Co., sold short and made $15 million in a few hours during the market crash of 1929, served as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (1934-35) and the U.S. Maritime Commission (1937)-and was U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain during the ominous years...
...glimpse into the concepts that lie behind the subject. Last year Fehr took on the job of collaborating with TV Producer Richard Pack of the Westinghouse Broadcasting Co. on a TV show that might whet the mathematical appetites of children around junior high-school age. Result: a pleasant, nine-part series called Adventures in Number and Space, now being shown once a week over regular TV channels in New York, Boston, Baltimore, Cleveland. Pittsburgh and San Francisco...
...school means an hour of uninterrupted serious work; here there are assemblies, errands to be run, trips to survey various adult activities, checking on the fire department or the bakery, and much time goes into preparing the school play. Every pupil in a European science-mathematics secondary school has nine years of one foreign language and six years of another. Yet many of our high schools teach no foreign languages at all. Some American high school graduates never get beyond quadratic equations, but every graduate of the European science-mathematics secondary school must be familiar with differential and integral calculus...
...spent with teams neither able to live up to expectations nor able to win more than one-third of their contests, Coach Floyd Wilson last year achieved greater success than anyone had dared hope for. Included in his team's 19-9 season were seven victories in the last nine games, two against Princeton, and a 7-7 league record good for a fifth place Ivy League finish...