Word: youngest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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David is their youngest son, a curly-haired Adonis who dreams like a Don Quixote. David's tragedy is that he confuses morality, dignity romance and passion. He fights Hitler at Dunkirk, still haunted by the memory of prep school bigotry and the hollow echo of his father's words, offered as a feeble solace: "Some of my best friends are anti-Semites...
...last, though, the amendment was ratified with the vote of Harry T. Burns, the youngest member of the Tennessee legislature following his mother's advice and helping vote in democracy for the women of America...
...unhitching of Podgorny from the troika may also have been Brezhnev's first step in breaking up the ruling hierarchy. Also dismissed last week was Konstantin Katushev, 49, once the youngest member of the powerful Secretariat of the Central Committee, who was believed to be on a meteoric rise. Katushev apparently lost favor for having organized last June's summit meeting of Europe's Communist parties, at which several party bosses flaunted their independence from Moscow. His replacement is Konstantin Rusakov, 68, a Brezhnev protégé with long experience in Eastern Europe who may have...
...also identified two other youngsters who are graduating from Johns Hopkins this year-Michael Kotschenreuther, 18, and Robert Addison, 19-as mathematically gifted. Stanley also helped other youthful math wizards, whom his testing turned up, get into other colleges. Among them: Eric Jablow, 15, who this year became the youngest boy ever to graduate from New York's Brooklyn College...
Dwindling Breeds. The youngest son of Charles Lindbergh, Scott has devoted the past eight years to studying monkeys and looking for ways to preserve dwindling breeds. Scott's Belgian wife, Alika, a former movie actress and novelist, encouraged him to become a naturalist after they met in 1967, when Scott was in his last year of philosophy studies at Cambridge University in England. With Alika, Scott studied animal psychology at the University of Strasbourg, and began turning his attention to a growing brood of rare monkeys that the two were collecting from friends who had tired of them...