Word: awarded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI (ABC, 8-11 p.m.). Alec Guinness, William Hoiden and Jack Hawkins in the splendid 1957 Academy Award winner about the heroes, reluctant and otherwise, in a World War II Japanese prison camp...
...petty-cash box if he chose. But Gordon Getty, 32, a real estate investor, composer, poet and the youngest of his four living sons, felt compelled to file what he called "a friendly suit" against the old man, asking San Francisco's Superior Court to award him $7,000,000 as his share of the stock dividends accumulated by a trust fund that J. Paul's mother, Sarah Getty, had established in 1934 for her son and grandchildren. Over the years, the trust's original capital of $3,500,000 has been lucratively multiplying under J. Paul...
...with the New York State department of health, most recently as director of its chronic-diseases division. For years, Haddon has been interested in auto safety, and he has written several books on the subject. One of them, Accident Research: Methods and Approaches (1964), won a National Safety Council award. Though he has often been critical of Detroit's safety standards, Haddon has nonetheless earned a reputation among automakers of being a fair-minded and reasonable...
...happens, the Air Force, which feels pretty much the same way, is playing it safe and plans to award a $300,000 grant to a university for further UFO studies. But until UFOs decide to show up, stay, and give some account of themselves, the majority of mankind, who, like Hamlet, think that they can tell a hawk from a handsaw when the wind is right, can be pardoned for withholding judgment...
...NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). The winner of a 1965 Peabody Award for television's most inventive art documentary. "The Mystery of Stonehenge," presents a new theory about the original function of the ancient ruins at Stone henge and the controversy this theory has caused within the scientific community. Repeat...