As TV lights glinted off his dental braces, the youngest freshman got the biggest welcome at the University of California at Los Angeles. Lance Kerr, of Sun Valley, Calif., told newsmen that he likes swimming and baseball, hopes to be a research physicist, hopes his classmates like him. They doubtless will, but there is an age gap. Freshman Kerr* is only twelve years old, the youngest student in U.C.L.A. history.
The son of a salesman, Lance was a slow starter. "I used to be ashamed," recalls his mother. "All my girl friends had children who could sing nursery rhymes. Lance didn't even...
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