Word: medal
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...athletes. In ages past, however, this area has brought forth some of the world's finest musicians, painters, writers, poets and philosophers. Since the country was divided in 1949, East Germany has not produced one outstanding novel, play or movie, nor made a contribution worthy of a gold medal in architecture, agriculture, medicine or physics. A nation's greatness is determined by more than Olympic medals...
...slalom in time to get home for the birth of his second child. But Alexander Ryan Mahre slipped across the starting line of his life in Scottsdale, Ariz., half an hour before Dad streaked across the finish line. Barely stopping to collect his gold medal, Mahre hastened home last week to hug his wife Holly, 22, and hold his son for the first time. Reconfirming that he would soon be "hangin' 'em up" (his skis, not diapers), Mahre cooed, "It's great finally to have him in my arms...
...brilliance. The son of a New York City attorney, Feldstein, 44, received a bachelor's from Harvard and graduate degrees from Oxford, all in economics, and at 29 became one of the youngest full professors in Harvard's history. In 1977 he won the John Bates Clark medal from the American Economic Association, which is given every two years to the most distinguished economist age 40 or under. That same year he was named president of the National Bureau of Economic Research, the accepted a business-cycle judge that declares when recessions begin and end. A believer...
AWARDED. To the late Whittaker Chambers, onetime TIME editor and confessed Soviet agent whose testimony helped convict Alger Hiss, an ex-State Department official and accused Communist spy, of perjury in 1950; a Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest U.S. civilian award. Chambers, who died in 1961, was one of 14 recipients of this year's medal. Others included the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, the late baseball great Jackie Robinson, Senate Majority Leader Howard H. Baker Jr., Actor James Cagney, Country Singer Tennessee Ernie Ford, Writer Louis L'Amour and the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale...
Public response in South America to the visit was overwhelmingly positive Uruguayan people shouted "Long live the democratic king!" to the dismay of the country's military government and Venezuela gave him the Bolivar Medal in honor of "the Liberator," Simon Bolivar...