Word: awarded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL (CBS, 4:30-5:30 p.m.). Part 2 of the award-winning Italian film Testadirapa, a 19th century tale of a father who is jailed for believing that his son will get more from roaming free than from going to school...
...most trying weeks of a crisis-ridden presidency. Amid all the tumult around him, Johnson still found time to chat amiably with West Berlin Mayor Klaus Schütze, make yet another plea for a 10% income tax surcharge, and present the Heart of the Year Award to Actress Patricia Neal, who suffered three near-fatal strokes three years...
...dedicated pacifist spent nearly two years trying, as he once said, "to mitigate at least a small part of the horror to which the Vietnamese are subjected." So successful were his efforts that his 160 fellow I.V.S.ers in Viet Nam nominated him for Macalester College's distinguished-service award presented to young men who have contributed to international understanding...
Characteristically, Gitelson tried to refuse the award, instead recommended his team leader but warned Macalester to hurry. "He's come close to getting blown up a couple of times," he wrote, "so you'd better grab him while he's still available." But Macalester stuck by its choice of Gitelson, and decided to give it to him in absentia...
Fortnight ago, Gitelson left the Vietnamese library he was building in Ba The and headed for a nearby village that had accidentally been bombed by American planes. At almost the same moment that a friend was accepting the award for him at Macalester in St. Paul, Minn., 8,500 miles away, David Gitelson was killed by the Viet Cong...