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...Medal of Freedom, the highest U.S. civilian award, was created in 1945 as a wartime decoration and revived by John Kennedy in 1963 as an American counterpart to the Queen's list of Birthday Honors in Britain. In the Nixon Administration, the only other recipient has been Duke Ellington...
...Greater Washington Alliance to Stop Pollution). Students at Western Washington State College are engaged in a long-range study aimed at keeping healthy lakes from being poisoned by increasing population, radioactive fallout and disturbances of currents, temperature and oxygen content. At Georgia Tech, 14 student architects have developed an award-winning design for urban amenities in the poverty area of a small Southern city. At M.I.T., students of chemical engineering are working on air-pollution abatements to "clean up the image of our profession"-and the air it so freely pollutes...
...season. He holds the club record for most games won (209), most strikeouts (2,486) and most shutouts (49). He shares with Koufax and St. Louis Cardinal Bob Gibson a league record for registering 200 or more strikeouts during each of six seasons. He won the Cy Young Award as the outstanding pitcher in the majors in 1962, when he posted a 25-9 record. Drysdale appeared in eight All-Star games and was the winning pitcher in 1967 and 1968. Last season he broke Walter Johnson's 55-year-old record by pitching 58 scoreless innings, a string...
Before she joined the Harvard Faculty, Miss Du Bois was director of research for the Institute of International Education. For services in the Office of Strategic Services in Washington and Ceylon during World War II, she received the Army's Exceptional Civilian Service Award...
...received the Achievement Award of the American Association of University Women in 1961, and she olds honorary degrees from Wilson College, Mills College, Mt. Holyoke College, and Wheaton College...