Word: honorably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speech at Newport News, Va., the President dropped an oblique hint that it would feel strongly compelled to do so. The occasion was the launching of the 61,450-ton attack carrier John F. Kennedy, christened by Caroline Kennedy, 9, with her mother Jacqueline standing alongside as matron of honor and a clutch of Kennedys near by. While earnestly praying that "this majestic ship" would sail the world's oceans in peace, Johnson noted that she might some day have to fight. For the fact is, said the President, indirectly referring to both Viet Nam and the Mideast, that...
Double Play. Meanwhile, though the Arabs continued to talk tough, they were busy looking for exits through which they could escape with honor. The plain fact was that, as Arab and Jew squared off for battle in the hazy heat of a khamsin desert wind, no one wanted the battle to start. From the beginning, the crisis had been the product of massive miscalculations. Nasser, who has repeatedly and publicly warned that the Arabs are not yet strong enough to take on Israel, made the first mistake by signing a mutual defense pact with his fellow leftists in Syria...
...Mekong Delta, on the carrier decks and in the gun mounts of the Seventh Fleet offshore, in the cockpits of helicopters and fighter-bombers in the skies above both Viet Nams, the American Negro is winning-indeed has won-a black badge of courage that his nation must forever honor...
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...
...Windsors belong to the jet set's predecessor, the international set, where only old money need apply and natural grounding in elegant living is de rigueur. Within its gracious confines, the duke and duchess are automatically the guests of honor at any party they attend, as though he were still king. It is a circle of friends that dates back to the '20s, and each year its number is shrunk by death. Churchill and Lord Beaverbrook are gone, and so are Viscount Monckton, who negotiated the terms of Edward's abdication, and New York Central Board Chairman...