Word: youngest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...directorships of four companies, and 17 years spent working at Parker, the last seven as chairman, during which time sales increased 33%. So when the N.A.M. needed a new chairman of its own last week, Parker sounded like just the man -and at 42. he becomes the youngest ever to hold the post...
...area of graduate student deferments. It eliminates graduate deferments for most members of this year's senior class, and it gives members of last Spring's class only a year's deferment for graduate study. It also gives the President authority to reverse the order of induction to 'youngest first" and call 19-year olds before older...
...What attracted me," said Lord Cromer, 49, "was the international aspect of the company. My job will be concerned with the broader policy issues." On both counts, the prescription fits his talents. As the youngest head of the Bank of England in two centuries, Cromer earned a reputation as an acerbic critic of Tory and Labor governments alike during his five-year (1961-66) governorship. His stature among bankers was enormous-and helped to raise the rescue funds overnight when eleven nations, including the willing U.S., came to the defense of the British pound at its moment of greatest peril...
Thanks partly to Baden-Powell's own gift for projecting a heroic image and partly to the ineffectual tactics of Boer General Cronje, Baden-Powell was made the youngest major general in the British army. His military prowess was acclaimed in terms that would have been extravagant for Alexander of Macedon. He retired in 1910 after an otherwise uneventful military career. But no matter, he made a swell founder of the Boy Scouts...
...send him scampering from Columbus to Chicago's bohemian Old Town district was the prospect of military school. Joe, 17, blames his run from Tampa, Fla. to Atlanta on parental neglect. "I'm the happiest I've ever been in my life," says Joe, the youngest member of Atlanta's small hippie colony. "This is more like a family than you could find, really, because there are no hang...