Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scout's Honor...
...World Record Miler Jim Ryun, 19, snapping news pictures for the Topeka Capital-Journal to prepare himself for the day when he can no longer break four minutes. It is Opera Singer Jane Marsh, 24, capturing first prize at Moscow's Tchaikovsky competition. It is Medal of Honor Winner Robert...
Oscar Handlin is posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor after he deftly parachutes through North Vietnamese antiaircraft fire in a futile attempt to rescue Harrison Salisbury. Vassar's president Simpson says he is "leaning" toward Princeton...
Kremlinologists dutifully measured the size of Brezhnev's mug with that of Khrushchev when he won the same honor in 1964 on his 70th birthday; it was only half as big. In the detailed press accounts of Brezhnev's career, some experts saw an effort to show fraternal Communist parties that Brezhnev has the stature to lead them against China. Others saw the boost for Brezhnev as ratification of his victory in a guns v. butter dispute; Kosygin is said to have opposed the 8% increase in military outlays approved two weeks...
When his home town of Columbia, S.C., held an elaborate "day" in his honor just five years ago, former Secretary of State James Byrnes chuckled: "Few people have an opportunity to hear themselves funeralized. Momentarily I expect someone to say, 'Don't he look natural?' " Now 87, Jimmy Byrnes and Maude, his wife of 60 years, were still looking mighty spry as they posed in his office under the portraits of some of Jimmy's old acquaintances-Molotov, Roosevelt, Stalin and Eisenhower. Long retired from statecraft, Jim keeps active by overseeing the James F. Byrnes Foundation...