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Mickey King. 1967 A.A.U. women's one and three meter diving champion, will give the third and final exhibition. She is considered the leading contender for the gold medal in women's one meter diving at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City...
...During a Medal of Honor ceremony at the White House, he dismissed as absurd the charge that the Administration is reviving fears of the "yellow peril" by naming Peking as the real threat to U.S. interests. "We fought side by side with Asians at Bataan and Corregidor, in Korea and now in Viet Nam," said the President. "We have utterly repudiated the racist nonsense of an earlier era. Indeed, we have made a commitment in Asia because we do believe that no men, whatever the pigmentation of their skins, should ever be delivered over to totalitarianism, that freedom...
...Vesper Boat Club of Philadelphia will enter the Senior Eight in competition with the Eliot House Boat Club and the Harvard Business School Boat Club. Stroked by Hugh Foley of the 1964 Olympics gold medal winning crew, the Vespers are aiming for the 1968 Olympics...
...leeches!"). Nor does he discuss his espousal of such right-wing causes as the repeal of the income tax and U.S. withdrawal from the U.N. Captain Eddie, now 77, has been awarded 14 honorary doctorates and 55 major decorations for merit and bravery, including the Congressional Medal of Honor. Clearly he deserves another honor: a better biographer...
...part, Johnson spent more time than usual expounding his Administration's policies. In a ceremony during which he awarded the 19th Medal of Honor of the Viet Nam war, he replied to Morton's charges that he had been "brainwashed"-a usage that must have warmed George Romney-by the military-industrial complex into seeking a solely "military" solution to the impasse in Viet Nam. Said the President: "We have also had to face the hard reality that only military power can bar aggression and make a political solution possible...