Word: younger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...frisky 80. Pointing out that Nehru's formal opposition comes only from the feeble Socialists and the malevolent Communists, C.R. last month founded a conservative political party known as the Freedom Party. Among its supporters: anti-Nehru Bombay Businessman Raja Hutheesingh, who is married to Nehru's younger sister, Krishna...
...today, at 76, seven years after his retirement from Harvard, Gropius has launched into a new burst of creativity. The Architects Collaborative (TAG), a group of keen younger architects he gathered around him at his Cambridge, Mass. headquarters, has all the commissions it can handle. The old Lawgiver has displayed an unexpected flexibility in design. "I was possibly too Puritan," he reflects. "Too much storming against the old traditions. Now I have, with the same conceptions, I hope, a more subtle, more delicate expression...
...father, the late Ibn Saud. Everything he touched had ended in political disaster: his extravagant giving and building exhausted the treasury and debased the currency, his clumsy plots against President Nasser exposed his regime to ridicule and isolation in the Arab world. The crowning blow had fallen when his younger brothers, led by the openly contemptuous Prince Talal, tongue-lashed him last year in private family council...
Going Through Channels. Once again a royal family council had to be called. Princes warned Feisal that, if he quit, the younger brothers might depose or kill the King, and told King Saud that civil war and bankruptcy might ruin the land if Feisal stepped down. By last week, after hours of debate, the council had patched together a compromise: the King approved Feisal's budget and Feisal assumed responsibility for the King's debts; Editor al Jasir was freed from jail, and the King conceded the importance of going through channels. Thus Saudi Arabia, still very much...
...weight and diabetes, gall-bladder trouble, and diseases of the heart, arteries and kidneys. Already evident, he said, is that in both sexes after 65, blood pressure goes up with weight, but has little or no relationship to height alone. And despite the popular belief that tall people die younger, height has nothing to do with longevity. Weight is the villain, Dr. Master concluded. "It is clear that obesity reduces the life span, and the outlook for thin persons is more favorable." That average weights are so much less in the most aged might indicate that these individuals have actually...