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Kamal Adwan, 38, was the youngest of the three P.L.O. officials assassinated by the Israelis. A former petroleum engineer who had worked with Arafat on the Persian Gulf, he was also influential in Fatah affairs, though he shunned publicity. He established one of the original Palestinian resistance cells and, at his death, was responsible for P.L.O. intelligence in Israeli-occupied territories. To the Israelis, this meant that he was in charge of terrorist acts within these areas...
...under an interim president. Then the trustees hired Botstein, who was completing his Ph.D. in history at Harvard and working as a special assistant to the president of the New York City board of education. He had little administrative experience when he acquired the distinction of being perhaps the youngest president in American higher education, but improbably enough, he has turned out to be a smashing success. In less than three years he has improved conditions at the college to the point that it expects to receive full accreditation...
That reputation for fairness was tarnished two weeks ago, when Ervin was called away to attend the funeral of his youngest brother. In his absence, the investigation almost got out of hand. One of the convicted Watergate wiretappers, James W. McCord Jr., began making sensational allegations of White House involvement. He talked to the committee's staff investigator, Samuel Dash, 48, and to the committee itself. Dash, trying to apply pressure on the six other convicted conspirators to also talk, unwisely called a press conference to reveal that McCord had "promised to tell everything he knows...
THURSDAY: The Miracle Worker. (1962) Patty Duke was the youngest actress ever to win an Oscar when at sixteen she played Helen Keller in this adaptation of William Gibson's play. CH. 56. 9 p.m. B-W. 2 hrs. Intruder in the Dust (1949) One of the better screen adaptations of Faulkner focuses on a young white's encounter with an old black Mississippian falsely accused of murder...
Proell burst on the Alpine scene in 1969: a skinny, blonde 15-year-old with freckles, who was the youngest member of Austria's eight-girl national skiing team. Two years later, after packing another 40 pounds on her 5 ft. 6 in. frame (she now weighs a chunky 150), she won her first World...