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...graduate of the Cambridge public schools and American International College in Springfield, Leonard J. Clarke, at age 22, is the youngest candidate in the race and expects his support to come from young voters and their parents. He ticked off a list of his major objectives if he is elected: a tax cut in 1976, retention of rent control, halting the expansion of Harvard and MIT, and reducing vandalism in Cambridge schools through the use of security guards to patrol the halls...
Clarke, at age 22, is the youngest candidate in the race and expects his support to come from young voters and their parents...
Hironaka was one of five persons to receive the Order of Culture, which is awarded annually. In addition, the 44--year-old professor was the youngest of ten named "Persons of Cultural Merit," an award that carries a lifetime annual pension...
...school. That same year he enlisted in the Army, later flew 50 missions over Europe as a bomber pilot, and was shot down twice. While on leave, he married a Texas model, Beryl Ann; they have three children. Mustered out as a major at 24, Bentsen was elected the youngest county judge in Texas. In 1948, he ran successfully for the U.S. House of Representatives, becoming the youngest member. He impressed a fellow Texan, Speaker Sam Rayburn, who included Bentsen in his after-hours bourbon-and-strategy sessions. Even so, Bentsen did not make much of a mark...
This has won Shanker a place in the AFL-CIO hierarchy. At 47, he is the youngest member of the AFL-CIO's 35-member executive council and is reputed to want to succeed President George Meany. "Usually, white-collar union leaders don't understand trade-unionism," says New York Labor Mediator Ted Kheel. "Shanker could have been the leader of the Steelworkers...