Word: awarded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BEST ON RECORD (NBC, 9-10 p.m.)* Such Grammy Award-winning performers as The New Vaudeville Band, Eydie Gorme, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald and Ray Charles sing the songs that earned the recording industry's highest honors...
...HOMECOMING is the winner of this year's New York Drama Critics' Circle Award and the Tony. Any resemblance between the characters in Harold Pinter's absorbing drama and the family next door is purely metaphysical...
Foremost among the Negro combat heroes of Viet Nam are the two who won Medals of Honor. Pfc. Milton Olive, 19, won his award posthumously by throwing himself on a grenade and saving the lives of four multicolored squadmates during a fierce fire fight near Phu Cuong in 1965. The only living Negro Medal of Honor winner in the Viet Nam war is Medic Lawrence Joel, 39, now stationed at Fort Bragg...
...National League batting championship with a .329 average, but he was not even elected to the league's All-Star team. In 1966 he hit -.317, clouted 29 homers, drove in 119 runs, and beat out Los Angeles Dodgers' Pitcher Sandy Koufax for the Most Valuable Player award - but his team blew the pennant to the Dodgers in the last week of the season. All told, Clemente has three batting titles to his credit-but nobody has ever asked him to do a shaving-cream commercial. Last week was merely typical. There was Roberto leading the league...
...wonder that the piano and violin competitions sponsored by Manhattan's Edgar M. Leventritt Foundation have helped launch many an illustrious career. Pianists Eugene Istomin, Gary Graffman and Van Cliburn and Violinists David Nadien and Itzhak Perlman are among the performers who got an early boost from the award. Since the stakes and standards are so high, the judges occasionally pick no winner when they feel that the candidates are not ripe for major concert appearances. In some years, no competition is held...