Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like Minnie the Moocher. The occasion: The Pointer Sisters' highly hooplaed New York debut, hard on the spike heels of their hit album, simply titled The Pointer Sisters. "We're not rhythm and blues or jazz. We're a new category−variety," declared Ruth, the oldest of the four daughters of an Oakland preacher. The quartet mixed jive talk with Lambert, Hendricks and Ross-like jazz and performed some marvelously energetic and ornate scat that called down visions of Cab Galloway...
Died. Gustaf VI Adolf, 90, King of the Swedes, the Goths and the Wends since 1950 and Europe's oldest monarch; in Helsingborg, Sweden. He was the sixth ruler in the 155-year-old Bernadotte dynasty founded by a Napoleonic marshal, and his death signals the end of the Swedish monarchy in all but name. By a constitutional change enacted during Gustaf's lifetime but delayed out of respect to the King, the throne of Sweden now becomes a purely ceremonial position. The scholarly Gustaf delighted in congratulating each December's Nobel prizewinners, amassed...
Engaged. Kathleen Kennedy, 22, oldest of the late Robert F. Kennedy's eleven children and a senior studying American history and literature at Radcliffe College; and David Lee Townsend, 25, doctoral candidate in English and American literature at Harvard who tutored her in Southern writers. Kennedy and Townsend are such Mark Twain fans that in the summer of '72 they recruited three friends to help build a raft and ride the Mississippi for 21 days in Huck Finn style...
Died. Shirali Mislimov, 168, a Caucasian herdsman regarded in the Soviet Union as the oldest man alive; in Barzavu, U.S.S.R. Mislimov, who neither smoked nor drank, and existed largely on a diet of chicken broth, cheese and curded milk, is survived by his 107-year-old third wife and 219 other family members, including a grandchild aged...
...putative member of the first category I occupied myself by listening to the putative members of the second, who were running around trying to convert one another. Finally three of the most dedicated missionaries--one an unaffiliated rad; one from the Socialist Workers Party, which is the oldest Trotskyist organization in the United States; and one from Progressive Labor, which took over SDS a few years back and which used to be Maoist but has now decided that Mao is a tool of the bosses--bumped into each other, smack in the middle of Bay State Road where there were...