SPARK-1851. Upgrade Avro dependency to 1.7.6 so Spark can read Avro file...

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Author: Sandy Ryza <sandy@cloudera.com>

Closes #795 from sryza/sandy-spark-1851 and squashes the following commits:

79c8227 [Sandy Ryza] SPARK-1851. Upgrade Avro dependency to 1.7.6 so Spark can read Avro files