Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Almost seven years after he was booted off Egypt's throne, ex-King Farouk, a puffy and myopic 39, moved a step farther from ever returning to Cairo in royal style. By special decree of Monaco's sympathetic Prince Rainier III, stateless Playboy Farouk, now a Monte Carlo sport, became a Monacan citizen...
...boatyard for a quick look at his newly bought 26-ft. cruiser, admires her lines with the air of Michelangelo studying the Sistine Chapel ceiling. In a Chicago boatyard, a bandanna-hooded woman sprawls beneath her boat to apply a coat of copper paint. In St. Paul, seven families buy seven new houseboats, begin the 322-mile homeward trip down the Mississippi to Clinton, Iowa. In Seattle, 1,000 boat owners, burgees and pennants flapping, parade from Lake Union to Lake Washington to herald the opening of the new season...
...many of them fan out from Phoenix as far as 280 miles to find water. There was scarcely a man-sized boat in Kansas ten years ago; today caravans of autos tow runabouts and outboard cruisers 361 miles from Wichita to Oklahoma's Lake Texoma. The seven-state Tennessee Valley region accommodated fewer than 10,000 boats on 24 TVA-created lakes in 1947; last year the count ran to more than 45,000. Denver had five fulltime boat dealers two years ago; 49 are making a good living today. The boom has also brought with...
...school district of Aldine, Texas, on the outskirts of Houston, is a spectacular example of money over mind. Two years ago, the Aldine taxpayers' association got full control of the seven-man school board, and nothing but penny-pinching grief has resulted since. The Aldine district (pop. 45,000) has had three school superintendents in two years, turned over 9% of its students to Houston to save money. Last summer the board cut the proposed school tax from $1.58 per $100 property assessment to $1.35. Result: the town's twelve schools (9,000 students) temporarily lost accreditation: after...
...Long's 7,500-house Maryvale development, seven miles northwest of Phoenix, he sells a house with three bedrooms, two baths, an all-electric kitchen, a garage and a 28-ft. swimming pool-all for $11,750. Long's houses, ranging from $8,975 to $25,950, offer extra space, glamour and luxury touches (gables, palm trees, sliding glass doors), yet sell for about $1,500 less than those of most of his competitors. Last week Long added yet another attraction: with each purchase, he will give a free acre of mountain retreat land near the Kaibab National...