Word: awarded
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Paprika Power Sir: Having followed the outcome of the Olympic Games since 1936, I conclude that the award for overall winner should go to Hungary. This small nation has maintained its No. 1 position, on a number-of-medals-per-capita basis, ever since Berlin...
...Translator Sir: Yasunari Kawabata's award of the Nobel Prize for literature [Oct. 25] could not be more deserving. His Snow Country is a book to read, reread and to treasure. But it can be read only in English by most of us, and I strongly suspect that the beautiful translation by Edward G. Seidensticker, which makes this possible, may have played a large part in attracting the attention of the panel. Your excellent article is lacking only in that it does not quote from his introduction to Snow Country: "In Snow Country we come upon the roaring silence...
...that show, the 120-member band formed the word BANG as the announcer presented the "Spiro T. Agnew award for distinguished achievement" to Pope Paul "for his contribution to the population explosion"--and the band played "With a Little Bit of Luck...
...right-hand seat, Charles M. "Chuck" Hagen '70, who was on academic pro last year and is sure to be voted the "Comeback of the Year Award...
...McLaren may sell cars to his rivals, but the ones he and Hulme reserve for themselves are some thing else again. Last year McLaren and Hulme completed a one-two sweep in the Can-Am marathon, winning five of six races and $165,000 of the total $472,720 award money. Only then did McLaren have 34 of his victorious Mark 6A racers reproduced and sold to competitors-including Dan Gurney, who has quite a reputation as a car builder himself. With that, McLaren set out to build a 1968 model that would show its tail pipes to the 1967s...