Word: medal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some mistake-has been participating in the local arts festival rather more enthusiastically than anyone planned. Her pet project is a famous Italian composer-pianist (Rossano Brazzi). The two look at one another, and the sound track booms concerti. On a chain around her neck Maureen wears the gold medal Brazzi won at the festival, a clue that her course in music appreciation has advanced beyond the hand-holding stage...
...that could lead to negotiations. Maybe. But bombings of Viet Cong encampments in the South continued. Indeed, there may have been a good deal of truth in the assessment of Air Force Lieut. Colonel Robinson Risner, veteran pilot in South Viet Nam who was in Washington to get a medal (see PEOPLE). When a reporter asked Risner if U.S. flyers were simply running out of bridges to hit in North Viet Nam. Risner said tersely...
...refused to be diverted from his mission. For such "extraordinary heroism," Air Force Chief of Staff General J. P. McConnell last week brought Robbie Risner back from Viet Nam, awarded him the Air Force Cross, second in rank only to the nation's highest decoration, the Congressional Medal of Honor...
After 36 holes on Saturday to determine both the team championship and the low medal, or stroke, scorers, the field was cut to 16 golfers for the match play championship. Buchanan, the only Crimson player whose Saturday score qualified him for the match play competition, was eliminated in the first round by Penn's George Haines...
Previous recipients of the medal include Albert Schwietner (last year); Randall Thompson '20, retiring Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music; Ralph Vaughan-Williams; and Charles Munch. It was first given...