Word: youngest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Before he died in November 1974, Hunt became a legend for his backing of ultra-right-wing causes, his penny-pinching (he often carried his lunch in a brown paper bag) and his health faddism (he used to crawl around his Dallas mansion on all fours for exercise). The youngest of his five sons, Ray Hunt, 34, is quiet almost to the point of being self-effacing. Yet surprisingly, Ray has wound up running-and streamlining -about half of the empire that H.L. once commanded...
...only people who will be excused from working are the aged, blind and disabled, along with welfare mothers whose youngest children are under six. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Russell Long declares. "I find difficulty in saying a mother with children is not expected to work when most women with children are working." If a welfare mother refuses to take a job, she will forfeit her personal benefit of $1,900 a year. But payments would be continued to her children: $ 1,100 for the first child, $600 for each additional one. While the mother works, she will be allowed...
Today, at 62, Motherwell is an American master (one of the very few around), but that is a recent reputation. Through the '40s and '50s in New York, when he was the youngest of the original abstract expressionist group, his conscious Francophilia set him rather apart from his colleagues. It was often taken as a denial of American newness. as a manifesto of eclecticism. Other artists dissimulated their debts to French painting or let critics bury them. Not Motherwell. Thus he was much abused as a mock European, all taste and private income-a Dick Diver, not attuned...
...controlled passing shots; and Billie Jean King, 33, slowed by knee surgery, who fell to Chris Evert, 22, in the quarterfinals. The record-breaking and-by Wimbledon's well-bred standards-surprisingly rowdy crowds adopted as their darling a 14-year-old, pigtailed Californian named Tracy Austin. The youngest player in the history of the tournament, Tracy convincingly won her first match against Holland's Elly Vessies-Appel 6-3, 6-3. Her curtsy to the Duke of Devonshire might have been gangly legged and selfconscious, but her tennis was graceful and self-confident. She also...
...side, young Americans were playing like veterans. John McEnroe, an 18-year-old from New York City reached the semifinals and made another bit of Wimbledon history: he is the youngest player to survive as far as the final four. When he arrived at the tournament, his status as an unseeded player was so lowly that he was not even allowed to use the main dressing room Victories over New Jersey's Alex Mayer, Egypt's Ismail El Shafei and Australia's Phil Dent, among others, earned him access to the stars' dressing room -and center...