Word: honored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Vellucci was host at a dinner for the Harvard varsity football team last night. The "Cambridge Italian-American Committee to honor Christopher Columbus' voyage and John Harvard's football squad's Victory over Yale" sponsored the dinner...
...North Africa, admired by the Allies, despised by Hitler, who gave him a choice of suicide or execution for his role in the abortive 1944 plot against der Fűhrer (Rommel chose suicide). In West Germany today, streets and military barracks are named for Rommel. Now comes another honor: West Germany's biggest warship, a 4,500-ton guided-missile destroyer will be christened the Erwin Rommel...
...Rain. In movie parlance it merely means Stupefier of Audience. In this wildly improbable western, Bringer of Rain (Sean Connery) is a rugged cavalry scout dispatched to the unhappy hunting grounds of the Apaches. There, he discovers a troupe of junketing European aristocrats, including Brigitte Bardot, Jack Hawkins and Honor Blackman, sipping drinks with pinkies extended, trading salon witticisms and plugging mountain lions from close range. Classic examples of the unspeakable pursuing the uneatable, the hunters blithely pooh-pooh Connery's warning that the Injuns are on a scalptingling expedition. Miffed, Shalako sulks off to wait for the redskins...
Five U.S. Army veterans of Viet Nam stood before their Commander in Chief in the White House last week to receive the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest award for valor. Lyndon Johnson chose the occasion to caution that "other bitter days and other battles still lie ahead." He added: "I cannot emphasize strongly enough that we have not attained peace-only the possibility of peace...
Simpson's closest rival for the honor was Leroy Keyes of Purdue who received 1103 points to Simpson's 2853. Terry Hanratty, Notre Dame's quarterback, was a poor third with 387 points...