Word: medal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson golfers, by winning the Easterns last year, have a psychological edge over the troublesome Quaker team. Match play, unlike professional medal play, is scored on the number of holes a golfers wins. "In professional golf, the golfers are challenging the hole and the course. When we compete, we are playing against the man from the opposition," LoPucki said...
...less an authority than General David Shoup, retired Marine Corps Commandant and Medal of Honor winner, accuses the armed services of relishing war for the sake of self-aggrandizement, of making the U.S. "a militaristic and aggressive nation." Physicist Herbert York, former Pentagon chief of research, development and engineering, warns that Americans will face a "Frankenstein monster that could destroy us." Not only are military motives questioned, but military competence as well. The defense complex is indicted for being unable to develop weapons that work well enough, wasting money needed for civilian purposes, giving bad and dangerous advice...
...killed her husband, a cattleman, because he had flogged her with a whip. As he addressed the jury, Foreman kept picking up the long black whip from the counsel table and cracking it ferociously. By the time he was through, the jury seemed willing to award the lady a Medal of Honor...
Nixon turned tourist in Westminster Abbey, asking the height of the ceiling and pausing before the U.S. Medal of Honor awarded to Britain's Unknown Warrior. There was a brief moment of embarrassment when the Union Jack on his limousine turned out to be upside down...
Pete Lazarus soared 14'6" for the first place medal in the pole vault. In the hurdles, junior Bill McBride led a one-two sweep for the Crimson, setting a new GBC record of 7.8 seconds. Junior Jim Coleman made a game attempt at the high jump record of 6' 9" set by Chris Pardee '67, but had to settle for victory...