Word: youngest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Labor) George Cabot Lodge, 34 and the father of six children, filed for the Senate seat previously held by both his father, Henry Cabot Lodge, and his greatgrandfather. In the renewal of an old family rivalry, he may find himself facing Edward Kennedy, 29, the President's youngest brother, who would love to run for the Democratic nomination...
Republican ex-Governor Robert Bass spotted Bridges as a likely young man, appointed him as his secretary, urged him to run for Governor in 1934. Bridges ran, and despite a national Democratic sweep that year, he won-becoming, at 36, the youngest Governor in New Hampshire's history. Bridges instituted unemployment compensation and insurance, old age benefits, even while balancing the budget. By 1936, Governor Bridges was a leading candidate for the vice-presidential nomination. But Alf Landon won the top spot on the ticket, and even before the Republican Convention, gleeful Democrats had come up with a deadly...
...Though missionaries and Papuan natives doggedly beat on through the increasingly impassable bush, the Australian rescue helicopters departed-as did Michael's father, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, who, upon his arrival at Idlewild Airport, first began to use the past tense in describing his adventurous youngest son: "He knew no fear. He loved life. He was never happier than he was out there these last seven or eight months." Then, drawn and drained but still "praying for a miracle," the Governor set off for a heartbreaking report to his estranged wife, Mary Todhunter Clark Rockefeller...
...Succeed in Education Without Really Trying. He is not a practicing scholar, never taught a class, and has been a college administrator for only four years. But he has so much inborn ability that people keep pressing him to take better jobs. Last week he became the youngest president in the 130-year history of 43,000-student New York University, biggest private university complex in the U.S. Not until he got the job was Hester even sure that he wanted to stay in education...
After hearing his older sister speak of her readers for a couple of years, our youngest thought the official title of the series was "Dumb Old Dick and Jane...