Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sputnik. But now the recession was coming closer to home-3,400,000 unemployed in December; 4,500,000 in January; 5,100,000 in February. Wearily, Dwight Eisenhower flew to George Humphrey's Milestone Plantation in Georgia, sat before a fire for the best part of seven days, made no pretense at performing presidential functions (TIME, March 3, 1958). It was the low point of his career...
...seven handsome villages near Cedar Rapids, Iowa, some 1,400 members of one of the nation's strangest sects sat down last week to sausages, hams, homemade cheeses, beer and wine. The Amana Society was celebrating the 100th anniversary of its charter in Iowa, and the neat homes, the television sets, the modern appliances and the new cars all testified to prosperity-a prosperity that Amana has enjoyed since it rejected communism and turned with all its zeal to capitalism nearly 30 years...
...Suffering People." India's new posture stiffened spines throughout Southeast Asia. In Burma the government signed a seven-year treaty with the autonomous and Chinese-infiltrated Shan and Kachin states of Burma that would for the first time put the protection of their borders with Red China under army control. The U.S. promised and prepared to deliver airborne aid to the threatened kingdom of Laos (see below). Next week Nehru will confer with Pakistan's strongman, General Mohammed Ayub Khan, who is urging a united defense of the subcontinent. At last Indians are beginning to see China...
...city of Rhodes, the policy-making Central Committee of the World Council of Churches gathered last week for its tenth annual meeting. On hand were 72 delegates from 24 countries, plus 36 staff members and 73 observers and guests. But the center of all attention were the delegates of seven Eastern Orthodox member churches and the two observers from Russian Orthodoxy-the first visitors Moscow had allowed to attend a Central Committee meeting. Behind the scenes, a major game of diplomatic move and countermove is going on over whether the Orthodox churches will continue to lean closer to Protestantism...
Leaping from 1,000 transports, pouring from 500 crash-landed gliders, 34,000 U.S. and British airborne troops slammed at seven river and canal crossings between the Maas and the lower Rhine, starting Sunday, Sept. 17, 1944. In the biggest airborne attack of all time, Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery had high hopes of hurdling the river barriers to outflank the Siegfried Line and thus end the war in Europe by a single-front thrust. Operation Market Garden failed. Though the U.S. 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions won their objectives, the British ist Airborne met disaster, was chopped to ribbons...