Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also won support from a man nearly as prominent, and as much of a brooding Hamlet, as Nehru himself: Jayaprakash Narayan, 56, who spent seven years in the U.S., going to college, waiting on tables, working in the stockyards. A onetime agitator and terrorist for Indian independence who languished ten years in British jails, Narayan formerly led the Socialists and was long considered heir apparent to Nehru. Then restless, diabetic Narayan became entranced with the mission of Vinoba Bhave, the saintly ascetic who tramps about India asking landlords to make a gift of their acres to landless peasants...
Grand Illusion. But De Gaulle apparently had more in mind than protocol splendor and ancient memories. On the seven-hour train trip from Milan to Rome, he took up with an unenthusiastic Gronchi his notions of "Latin brotherhood." He hinted grandly of the benefits of a Mediterranean pact with Italy, and possibly Spain, Tunisia and Morocco. He dangled before his host's eyes France's own imminent entry into the "nuclear club," and seemed to share Le Monde's strange illusion that "Italian leaders desire France to be the natural spokesman for Italy...
This year, things have been looking up for Hoad. At 24, he is seven years younger than Gonzales, never seems to tire on the court. More important, he is beginning to match Gonzales' ferocious concentration. When his thinking is cool and his strokes are hot, Hoad can play an overwhelming brand of tennis. Flatfooted, he can hit a backhand with a flick of his powerful wrist with so much top spin that the ball seems to zoom off the turf like a maddened hornet...
Warmly Welcomed. In six weeks the process produced seven articles under the Harriman byline; e.g., on Yalta ("Seldom, I am told, has an American been more warmly welcomed"), on peace ("I have been received everywhere as an American who symbolizes our wartime alliance"), and Soviet penal reform (his hosts showed him only their showpiece prison outside Moscow...
...beneath the ocean, and can now recite glibly the truism that the bottom of the ocean is not as well known as the near side of the moon. Discoveries follow every voyage. Under the Pacific, oceanographers have found deep trenches, at least one of them big enough to contain seven Grand Canyons, and a 1,000-mile range of high mountains that no one knew existed until just one year...