Word: seven
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...Seven of the 63 American "Aces" who had downed five or more enemy planes were Harvard men. Harvard men received 93 Croix de Guerre and four medals of the Légion d'Honneur...
...travel business has more than its share of venality, but during his 22 years as a guidebook writer, Fielding seems to have kept his integrity. He spends $60,000 a year of his own money on traveling, insists that he has never accepted a free plane ticket. There are seven European hotels in which Fielding allows himself to stay without paying because the operator is a close friend and would otherwise be offended. He makes up for that by overtipping: during a two-day sojourn at Madrid's Palace Hotel, managed by Alfonso Font, he gave away $130 in gratuities...
...Temp recalls, Guidesters began writing to complain about the Gresham Hotel in Dublin, an alltime Fielding favorite. He collected their letters over a seven-month period, then sent photo copies to his old friend, Manager Toddie O'Sullivan. "I said, 'Toddie, I don't like this at all. Something must be wrong.' " Next, he dispatched Nancy on an inspection trip, then dropped the Gresham to No. 2 in Dublin, behind the Shelbourne. "We said we hoped it was only a temporary aberration," Fielding says. At first furious, O'Sullivan took a second look and decided that the Guide was right...
Bitter Beginnings. Times were not always so good for Johnny, fourth of the seven children born to Ray and Carrie Cash. From a three-room shack in Kingsland, Ark., the hard-pressed Cash family moved to Dyess, Ark., in 1935, when a New Deal colony opened up there. Like the other landless farmers who gathered in search of their American dream, they ended up with 20 acres, a house, barn, chicken coop, a mule, a cow and a plow. The work was hard, the income meager. But, insists Johnny, "I was never hungry a day in my life. Aw, sometimes...
West Germany has become Europe's pre-eminent economic power, and the Deutsche Mark the world's strongest currency. The country's very strength, however, is now a source of tension and trouble both inside and outside Germany. Twice within seven months, a speculative rush to buy marks has weakened the finances of West Germany's al lies and roiled international monetary affairs. At home, the blessings of prosperity now threaten to turn into the pangs of inflation. What happens in Germany next will have a vital effect on all of Europe...