Word: younger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pitcher on his parochial school's baseball team and manager of its football team. At twelve years and three months, he became an Eagle Scout, one of the youngest on record. To all outward appearances, the family in which he grew up in Lake Worth, Fla.?including two younger brothers besides his mother and father, a moderately successful plumbing contractor?was a typical American family. Charlie joined the Marines in 1959 when he was 18, later signed up at the University of Texas, where he was a B student...
...service-station owner in Texarkana, Texas. "Mark opened the door to the observation deck and a gun went off," said Gabour. "Mike screamed." Then his sons, his wife and his sister, Mrs. Marguerite Lamport, "came rolling down the stairs. Whoever did the shooting slammed the door." Gabour turned his younger son over, saw he had been shot in the head. He was dead. So was Gabour's sister. Critically injured, his wife and his older son were bleeding profusely. Gabour and his brother-in-law dragged their dead and wounded to the 27th floor, sought help but could find none...
...retired as an Associated Press editor in Manhattan to study the stock market under the university's economists. Ernest Jones, 66, a bearded Northwestern lumberjack who frittered away a $6,000 bankroll before he heard about the Kentucky program, is studying German and recreational leadership. He figures that younger students learn faster, but argues that "we can be more persistent" and says yearningly: "I'd sure like to go to Oxford...
...there is a fundamental motivation to CNVA, it is something that personally motivates each member. Many of the younger people in the group have burned their draft cards and face court prosecution. CNVA's political goals are only the broadest in nature. There are few specific objectives, such as there are in the civil rights movement, for example. In this, CNVA is different from many of the so-called "New Left" organizations, which have specific policy ideas and are constantly experimenting with ways to implement them...
Either candidate will face a determined opponent in Rockefeller, 54, who has rejuvenated the Arkansas G.O.P. almost singlehanded since moving into the state in 1953. The younger brother of New York's Governor attracted new industries-and 90,000 new jobs-as the Faubus-appointed chairman of the Arkansas Industrial Development Commission from 1955 to 1964. He has since concentrated on finding and financing promising G.O.P. candidates. Encouraged by Rockefeller's showing against Faubus, Republicans have put up a record 516 candidates for state and local offices this year (v. 165 in 1964), and are confident that Arkansas...