Word: youngest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Thomas B. Byrd, 78, youngest and last survivor of Virginia's famed Tom, Dick and Harry brothers; after a long illness; in Boyce, Va. Dick, better known as Admiral Richard E. Byrd, was the great Antarctic explorer; Harry, of course, was a pillar of the U.S. Senate from 1933 to 1965; and Tom was the one who stayed home, quietly building the family fortune in Shenandoah Valley apple orchards...
...recommended changing the order of call from the present oldest first to 19-year-olds first. The new law empowered the President to make that change but severely limited his choice of a new selection system. It prohibited random selection as well as a shift that would call the youngest men first in ascending age sequence. He could have chosen to induct men from any or all of the seven eligible age groups (19 to 25 years) but was compelled to draft the oldest men first within each group chosen...
...Without Honor. Philadelphia Congressman William Green, at 29 youngest member of the House and youngest political boss in the U.S., walked through his Fifth District to sample opinion among its many ethnic groups. Green, whose father, the late Representative Bill Green, ran the Philadelphia Democratic City Committee before him, said he found "a hunger for peace in Viet Nam." Yet virtually none of his constituents favored U.S. withdrawal, and many complained that Johnson had not acted firmly enough in seeking return of the Pueblo...
...responsible for this change, it is Admiral Gorshkov, 57, who became the youngest admiral in Soviet history at 31 and has guided the growth of the navy as its chief for the past twelve years. He has totally reshaped the Soviet Union's once conservative naval strategy and transformed the fleet into the most effective and flexible arm of Soviet foreign policy...
...Youngest Admiral. Born in the Ukraine, Gorshkov joined the navy when he was 17, and graduated from Leningrad's Frunze Academy, the Russian equivalent of Annapolis, four years later. When war broke out, he was the commander of a handful of antiquated cruisers and assorted small craft in the Black Sea. As the German invaders rushed toward the oilfields of the Caucasus, Gorshkov became expert at amphibious operations, plucking trapped Soviet troops from the Crimean coasts and landing them farther eastward to fight again...