Word: youngest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...with bold thrusts or verbal fireworks, but did contribute sorely needed efforts to clarify issues and points of law. As his reason for retiring. Whittaker cited "physical exhaustion from the great volume and continuous stresses of the court's work." Friends reported that Whittaker, at 61 the third youngest member of the court, had broken down from the strain of conscientiousness. "He brooded and tormented himself over decisions." said one federal official...
...open secret that Teddy Kennedy, the President's youngest brother, left Harvard under fishy circumstances during his freshman year in 1951. But not until last week did Teddy, now 30 and a candidate for the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts, get around to supplying the details. To a Boston Globe reporter he explained that a friend had taken a Spanish examination for him; they were caught, and the dean asked them both to leave...
Flash of Rebellion. After Per&243;n the vivo, Frondizi-the austere, finger-wagging intellectual-was an emotional frustration. The next-to-youngest of 14 children born to an immigrant Italian bridge builder, Frondizi was a shy, unexceptional youth, who showed his first flash of spirit in 1930 against then Dictator Jose Uri-buru. Frondizi completed a six-year law course in three, with honors. But on graduation day he stood on the platform, and refused to accept his honors certificate "from a government put in power and maintained by military force...
...remain so for long. By the time he was nine, he had given recitals in Argentina and Europe, and was performing in Tel Aviv, where his parents had settled. He won the first America-Israel Cultural Foundation scholarship to study in Europe, and at 13 became the youngest student in the history of Rome's Academy of Santa Cecilia to win a master's degree. Hearing of the prodigy. Artur Rubinstein several times invited Barenboim to his home to play. Present on one occasion was U.S. Impresario Sol Hurok. who signed him up at 14 for his first...
Breathed Owner René Lasserre, 49, still misty-eyed with emotion: "A real restaurateur can't hope for more." Said an editorial in Paris-Presse: "Michelin, the lighthouse of our gastronomic navigation, has finally illuminated, with its ineffable light, one of the youngest, most beloved and elegant of Paris restaurants...