Word: younger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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CHARLIE CHAPLIN AND OONA O'NEILL He was 54; she was 18 But: two of his previous brides were even younger...
WOODY ALLEN AND SOON YI PREVIN He was 56; she was 21 (although she has no birth certificate, and could have been younger) But: technically, he was not her father...
...money from the Nobel Prize he felt sure he would win. Still, they continued to have contact, mostly having to do with their sons. The elder, Hans Albert, would become a distinguished professor of hydraulics at the University of California, Berkeley (and, like his father, a passionate sailor). The younger, Eduard, gifted in music and literature, would die in a Swiss psychiatric hospital. Mileva helped support herself by tutoring in mathematics and physics. Despite speculation about her possible unacknowledged contributions to special relativity, she herself never made such claims...
...ammunition. Hosted for 33 years by the conservative intellectual William F. Buckley Jr., the show taped its final installment, which will air on PBS stations the week of Dec. 26. Blue and white balloons had been set out to leaven the gloom, as had a panel of younger pundits, including Michael Kinsley and William Kristol. Their conversation was unhurried and intelligent, as it always is on Firing Line. Watching it all, you couldn't help thinking that something more than a TV show was passing away...
...winter is a good sled ride down a snowy slope. To keep the thrill safe, the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons is urging parents to supervise the fun--and to put helmets on children under 12. Each year about 7,000 kids suffer head injuries in sledding crashes. Younger children are especially vulnerable because they have proportionally larger heads, higher centers of gravity and less developed coordination. For a brochure on how to sled safely, call...