Word: youngest
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...youngest predecessor was Herbert Hoover, who held the post in 1921 at the age of 46. Average age of Cabinet members...
...handsome, athletic six-footer will be the youngest Commerce Secretary in history and youngest current member of the Cabinet.* A Princeton honors graduate and winner of a Bronze Star in Korea as a Marine second lieu tenant, New Jersey-born Trowbridge was president of Esso Standard Oil Co. of Puerto Rico before joining Commerce as an Assistant Secretary two years...
...Larry King, 38, a freelancer who has written extensively for Harper's. Managing Editor Russell Lynes is being replaced by Senior Editor Robert Kotlowitz, 42. Like Fischer, Lynes will continue to write a column. "These additions," said Fischer, "will give Harper's the best-balanced-and youngest-editorial staff in its 117 years...
...this book follows elements of the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) and the 101st Airborne Division through the string of Central Highlands skirmishes, ambushes, successes and failures that were known as Operations Crazy Horse, Austin 6, and Hawthorne II. Marshall, at 66 a retired brigadier who once was the youngest American company commander in World War I, viewed most of the terrain and some of the fighting himself, meticulously interviewed survivors and strategists to produce his staccato narrative...
Right v. Left. A solid, handsome man who, at 26, is the world's youngest monarch, Constantine thus became a besieged king, caught between the demagoguery and displeasure of Greece's leftists and the impetuous action of the rightist military. The dilemma was all the more ironic because the military is strongly promonarchist. It constantly invoked the royal name for every action during the coup, and moved to seize power chiefly because it feared that the King's enemies would win the parliamentary elections scheduled for May 28. The generals feared that victory would go to George Papandreou...