Word: award
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intends to head the platform committee. Now some downstate delegates, perhaps as many as 20 out of the total of 58, are threatening to ignore Percy and vote for Nixon or Reagan from the outset. Even so, Percy last week accepted the printing industry's Benjamin Franklin Award citing him as "a man of action and a man who has yet to travel far." To lend himself stature, he delivered his acceptance speech while standing on an empty wooden Coke case...
Frisoli, who included labels with all his answers, won the Underclassman Award. The Dunster Rock Team, with nine mistakes, received the Team Award as well as a share of the Alan Freed Memorial Essay Prize...
...three months, the newspaper had four reporters looking into rumors of shady dealings in the award of a $12 million construction contract for a world trade center at Los Angeles harbor. Yorty called the resulting exposé an attempt to smear him and asked for a grand-jury investigation. The grand jury obliged. Its verdict: a 15-count indictment charging perjury and bribery against four present and former commissioners, all appointed by Yorty...
Cleaning City Hall. The action revolved around the award of the world-trade-center contract without competitive bidding to Real Estate Developer Keith Smith, 41, onetime (1962) Methodist Layman of the Year for Southern California-Arizona, who was charged with five counts of bribery and five of perjury. Smith, a member of the city commission on human relations, is accused of paying off, through complex financial transactions, four harbor commissioners in return for the $12 million contract...
...have dinner at Jacqueline Kennedy's apartment last night? Up five points. Was so-and-so not invited by the Lowells to meet the latest visiting Russian poet? Down one-eighth. Did so-and-so's book get nominated for the National Book Award? Up two and five-eighths. Did Partisan Review neglect to ask so-and-so to participate in a symposium? Down...