Word: awarded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week the phones jangled for nine more winners, who, following the medicine award announced the previous week -to Allan Cormack, 55 (U.S.), and Godfrey Hounsfield, 60 (British)-completed this year's prize slate of eleven. The 1979 list of winners is notable for several reasons. For once, the often controversial Peace Prize went to an individual beyond criticism or calumny: Mother Teresa, 69, who has spent a selfless lifetime working in the slums of Calcutta. The prize for literature went to the Greek lyric poet Odysseus Elytis. The twin economics prizes went to men whose concern has been...
...characteristic lack of fuss in the Missionaries of Charity motherhouse in Calcutta. She has won an array of international honors, and though this one carried the biggest stipend so far-$190,000-she took it in stride. "Personally, I am unworthy," she said in her first response to the award...
...time Emmy Award winning producer Bud Yorkin received the Harvard Lampoon's first Golden Jester Award last night in a Science Center ceremony...
Yorkin accepted the award "for significant contributions to comedy over the last 25 years" and presented the Lampoon with a series of clips from his films and T.V. programs. After the presentation the small Science Center audience viewed one of Yorkin's feature movies, "Start the Revolution Without...
Lampoon President Andrew S. Borowitz '80 praised Yorkin for his work with Norman Lear on productions such as "All in the Family" and "Sanford and Son." "This is the first 'nice' award the Lampoon has given in recent memory--maybe more than recent memory," Borowitz added...