Word: youngest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week that closed out his eight years in office, Dwight Eisenhower had a final briefing for John Kennedy, held his 193rd and last presidential press conference, greeted the last ambassador accredited to the U.S. during his stay in office (goateed Konan Bedie of the Ivory Coast, at 26 the youngest ambassador ever to serve in Washington). Ike also delivered his final televised presidential address to the nation. It was his farewell message, and he meant it to be remembered...
...school after wartime infantry service in the C.B.I. theater. He took leave from teaching to serve as a special adviser to Army Secretary Frank Pace during the Korean war, spent 19 months as vice chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh before stepping in two years ago as the youngest president in the history of West Virginia University...
...often thankless role, and no one knows it better than Jackie. "I feel as though I had just turned into a piece of public property," she said recently. "It's really frightening to lose your anonymity at 31." At that age, Jackie Kennedy will be one of the youngest First Ladies in U.S. history, and by every outward standard, she would seem perfectly suited to the part. Born to wealth and high social position, she has beauty, a swift intelligence and rarefied cultural interests. As Jack Kennedy's wife, she has lived for years in the public...
...Youngest and toughest member of Adenauer's Cabinet, Strauss is a man most Germans expect will surely rule Germany some day. He looks as German as a stein of beer. A hulking man (5 ft. n in., 190 Ibs.) with the powerful chest of a onetime cycling champion, he walks with the stiff, lurching gait of a Bavarian peasant. His eyes are small and blue, his head square and massive. But inside the square head of this butcher's son is a fantastically retentive brain that gobbles up details of technology and digests the lumpiest government problem...
Died. Keith Thomson, 41, Republican Senator-elect from Wyoming, who would have been the first man in the state's history to move up from the House of Representatives (where he was Wyoming's lone delegate for six years); of a heart attack; in Cody, Wyo. The youngest infantry battalion commander on the Italian front in World War II, Thomson forged an equally successful civilian career as a lawyer, rancher and businessman, as a politician belonged to Senator Barry Goldwater's conservative school...