Word: younger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the committee searching for a new president for the University of Chicago first approached John T. Wilson, 61, earlier this year, he turned them down; he apparently felt the post should go to a younger...
...benches along its base; old men sit there in the evening with their hands clasped between their knees. Once, a benchsitter said hello to me and I didn't bother to answer. Now I figure that I should have. After all, he didn't mumble like the younger men in Harvard Square, and it must get pretty boring, watching the traffic. I don't think people are particularly impudent in Central Square. They don't look through passersby, or around them, perhaps because there are fewer pedestrians coming at them...
...believe I'm old enough to go steady," said New York Governor Hugh Carey, 56, "but I have no intention of doing anything like that." The Governor is a widower with twelve children, and his occasional dinner date is Anne Ford Uzielli, 32, younger daughter of Automaker Henry Ford II. Anne has been living quietly in Manhattan with her two children since the break-up of her marriage to a Wall Street stockbroker two years ago. She and Carey were introduced in October by Phyllis Wagner, wife of former New York Mayor Robert Wagner. Says the Governor...
...Captain Joseph Medill Patterson launched the original Illustrated Daily News in 1919. O'Neill, who was named editor last August, has split the paper into numerous local editions to improve neighborhood coverage, and retired many of the general-assignment veterans in the newsroom. They have been replaced by younger specialists who are expert on such subjects as urban affairs, education and municipal finance. Says Village Voice Political Columnist Ken Auletta: The News "is a good paper getting better...
When I ask Lee if he has as many teenage readers as younger ones, he draws himself up in his chair with the air of a man about to reveal the answer to a profound moral question (expecting his reply to provoke dismay). "As Marc Antony said as he stood over Caesar's corpse, 'If you have tears to shed, prepare to shed them.' We have"--he pauses dramatically--"as many readers from age 16 to 25 as we have from age 6 to 15. As a matter of fact, you're almost too young for me to be talking...