Word: youngest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...evangelism (backed by Shastri's strongman, Congress Party President Kumaraswami Kamaraj), is less metropolitan but more leisurely. Where Bombay is sparked by its Parsi businessmen (descended from 8th century Persian fire worshipers), Madras is tempered by Tamil intellectualism. New Delhi-founded in 1911 by the British -is the youngest of the nation's great cities, and its least distinctive. Dust swirls through its broad, beige streets; beggars sleep on its sidewalks beneath gaudy murals; and pallid politicians occupy center stage...
...twelve candidates considered for the chancellor's job, Heyns (rhymes with signs) has spent his entire 21-year academic career at Michigan, rising from graduate teaching assistant to psychology professor to head of its College of Literature, Science and the Arts. At 40, he was the youngest man to hold the post. Ann Arbor considered him the logical successor to President Harlan Hatcher, who will retire in 1967; to keep him on campus, some faculty members suggested that Heyns be given a special executive position ranking above the university's six other vice presidents. "I am no disciplinarian...
Clark has raced and won in rearengined cars, front-engined cars, sports cars, grand-touring cars, saloons and Formula Juniors; on asphalt in South Africa, on dirt in Australia, on concrete in England. In 1963 Clark became the youngest Grand Prix champion in the history of motor racing, set another record by winning seven out of the ten events that counted toward the title. His 1965 record so far is even more impressive: three Grand Prix entered, three Grand Prix won. In five short, incredible years, Clark has won 16 world championship Grand Prix races-more than anybody else, including...
...have both." On a map of Chicago, he pinpointed neighborhoods with strong business potential but weak banking facilities, opened up a score of small-currency exchanges in those areas; as his business developed, he started the Jefferson State Bank (assets: $35 million), and became one of the youngest U.S. bank presidents. Another millionaire who has used money to make money is Phoenix Mortgage Banker A. B. ("Bob") Robbs Jr., 43, who went into New York cold in 1949, sold bankers on the wonders of Arizona, since then has brought $250 million into the state...
Married. Dame Jean Conan Doyle, 52, youngest daughter of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, herself commandant of the Women's Royal Air Force since 1963; and Sir Geoffrey Bromet, 73, a retired air vice-marshal; she for the first time, for the second; in London...