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...message last January, "we shall have to test anew whether a nation organized and governed such as ours can endure." In the years since Wilson, Americans and their Presidents have vanquished many threats from those who would abolish the "consent of the governed." But the test that faces the youngest elected and the most vigorous President of the 20th century - and all those who live under his leadership-is far greater: to meet and battle, in a time of great national peril, the marauding forces of Communism on every front in every part of the world. In his first year...
...suggest Mr. John F. Kennedy-first Catholic and youngest President of the U.S.A...
...real purpose of Minuteman is to get a true numerical superiority in ICBMs," says Brigadier General Samuel Phillips, project boss of the missile and, at 40, the youngest officer of star rank in the three services. ''To achieve that we must keep actual production costs as low as possible, and we must keep operating costs equally...
...suggested brief. Unaware that his hypothetical fellow travelers were to be Fidel Castro, British Playwright John Osborne and Philosopher-Demagogue Bertrand Russell, Getty wrote: "I am only 13 stone [182 Ibs.] and therefore probably lighter than the rest. If there are other millionaires there, I'm probably the youngest at 68, so the oldsters should go." Finally came the hard sell: "I probably pay more taxes in more countries than anyone in the world...
When the U.S. Senate convenes next month, its newest member will also be its youngest. Named last week to replace veteran Republican Styles Bridges, who died three weeks ago: New Hampshire's Attorney General Maurice J. Murphy...