Word: younger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dervish-like as the environment he has set out to control, ESSA's first administrator, Dr. Robert M. White, 43 (younger brother of Author Theodore), combines the talents of a no-nonsense executive with solid scientific vision. White comes to the job with a background in weather research, first with the Air Force, then as president of Travelers Research Center, Inc., and later as chief of the U.S. Weather Bureau. Most observers consider him superbly equipped to chart the new agency's $145 million budget, 14% of which is earmarked for both in-house and contracted research...
...left for the most popular living player to snare-Babe Ruth's alltime record of 714 homers. Will Willie make it? He personally doesn't think so. "I'll never pass Ruth," he says. "Maybe some guy coming up, like Hank Aaron, who is three years younger and has a friendly fence in Atlanta now, will pass...
...while she recuperated from deft surgical replacement of valves damaged by rheumatic fever. Two previous patients of Dr. DeBakey's, both men in their 60s, died despite aid from the heart pump; but at week's end the artificial half-heart was removed from the younger, stronger Mexican woman in a 20-minute operation, and her own heart beat effectively...
...Roberta Pearson, wife of a junior bank executive in Chicago. "These prices are robbery. The Government seems more interested in the price of rice in Saigon than in food costs in New York," says Manhattan-dwelling Mrs. Joan Lester. Says Boston's Mrs. Irene Krutt: "If I were younger, I'd grab a placard and picket...
...asking the way to Eros, but to Apollo. He showed his works with the simplicity of the very great." The aging sculptor returned her admiration with a passion, sketched Isadora and her pupils countless times, once sighed: "If only I could have had models like this when I was younger." Isadora responded in kind: "What a pity! Surely Art and all life would have been richer thereby...