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...Contrasts. Rivalry between the two would be fascinating regardless of the prize. They are a study in contrasts. Richard Milhous Nixon, only 55 but a political force in the nation for a full generation; the steely infighter who developed from a boy beanpicker in Whittier, Calif., to the second-youngest Vice President in U.S. history; the man who has been around so long, sat so high, fallen so far, and so discreetly risen again that some of his oldest enemies have grown mellow toward him; and the politician who, despite his origins and his own mellowing, has been unable...
Three Skills. After competing in all three of rodeo's riding events-bareback, saddle broncs and bulls-Mahan last year became the second-youngest man ever to win the All-Around Cow boy title (rodeo's equivalent of Most Valuable Player) and the fourth-highest money winner of all time when he collected $40,358. Last week at the Phoenix Jaycee Rodeo, he won $2,138 (plus a $750 jeweled belt buckle) to run his 1967 prizes to $17,262, a full $6,134 more than his closest competitor for All-Around honors and by far the highest...
Graduating from Yale in 1929, Griswold was made a full professor of history in 1941 at the age of 40. When elected president nine years later, he was the second-youngest man ever to fill the post...
...prepared to establish his Government-in-Exile there. << John L Lewis Jr. graduated from not-so-laborite Princeton. The labor leader brought his cigar along and watched. << George Weyerhaeuser, famed kidnap victim of 1935, now 15, graduated from a Tacoma, Wash, junior high school. << Joseph P. Kennedy's second-youngest daughter, Patricia, 17, was chosen to bottle-whack the S.S. President Polk, last of the American President Lines' new series of combination freight-and-passenger vessels...
Romilly, Winston Churchill's 18-year-old nephew, scandalized his Tory family by packing off to Spain to fight for the Loyalists. The Hon. Jessica Lucy ("Decca") Freeman-Mitford, 19, second-youngest of the six beauteous daughters* of Baron Redesdale, scandalized her equally Tory family by joining Esmond. Fuming, Baron Redesdale made Decca a ward in chancery, thus making it illegal for any Englishman to marry her without the High Court's consent. Decca and Esmond cocked a long-distance snook, cried: "We both regard marriage mainly as a convenience. . . ." (Few months later they compromised with convention...