Word: awarded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...down to announce: "I'm goin'." That decision, as it turned out, led to his becoming the most celebrated G.I. in America's military history. Of such legendary stuff was York made that Gary Cooper easily parlayed an unusually accurate film biography into a 1941 Academy Award-winning role...
...custody had been worked out, but shortly after the Republican Convention, Mrs. Rockefeller brought the truth into the open by filing suit to get the children back. Her petition stated that Murphy had custody originally-and now she has won the first round in her battle to reverse the award. A White Plains, N.Y., judge overruled Murphy's plea to dismiss the case, instead scheduled it for trial-in chambers-on Sept...
...other broadcasting companies. In 1954, when Lyndon was Senate minority leader, the Johnsons bought KANG, a foundering UHF (ultrahigh frequency) television station in Waco. The FCC had just given a VHF license to a proposed Waco TV outlet, KWTX. CBS, which had been negotiating with KWTX, quickly decided to award its contract to KANG instead. Shortly thereafter, so did ABC. Then, with FCC approval, the Johnsons increased the transmitting power of their Austin station and made a costly swath across KWTX's viewing and advertising market. KWTX pushed an unsuccessful federal antitrust action against the Johnsons, finally gave...
...brandishing a batch of warmly enthusiastic European press notices. Deemed by Hollywood to be unworthy of this year's Cannes film festival (TIME, May 15), the movie about racial intermarriage was submitted by its makers as an unofficial American entry and ended by winning a Best Actress award for its star, Barbara Barrie. Now U.S. filmgoers can see for themselves that the hot Potato hardly deserves to be whipped into a cause celebre. It is an often tedious and oversimplified polemic, even though Actress Barrie's sensitive, unaffected performance does lend some dramatic validity...
After writing the 1960 award-winning novel A Separate Peace and the less successful Morning in Antibes, Author John Knowles, at 35, decided he was fed up with the U.S. "I was getting restless in houses so completely furnished and air conditioned and wired for sound and insulated from the outdoors that the people inside seemed in danger of becoming merchandise too." So he sought freedom, and his true self, by traveling to humanity''s cradle, the Middle East. In Beirut, languid young Lebanese reclined amid cushions and asked him to explain their country to them because...