Word: medal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nearly three new books a year, L'Amour may have to take at least one day off in the coming year so that he can head back east to Washington to be honored along with Bandleader Fred Waring, 82, and the late champ Joe Louis. Government-issued gold medals of the three were approved by Congress last week. There have been 90 honorees since George Washington received the first medal in 1776. Another son of the heartland, President Reagan, will probably present the medal. Although no stranger to horse operas, Reagan appeared in none of the 35 movies made...
...Vice President recalls in chilling clarity the bare arm of Roy Benavidez, belatedly awarded the Medal of Honor last year for heroism in Viet Nam. In Texas last week the former sergeant told him the scar came from a Vietnamese bayonet thrust...
...sapped the productive energy of U.S. business. More important, Feldstein, who earned his doctorate at Oxford University, is a respected scholar known for backing his views not with rhetoric alone, but with careful research and painstaking statistical studies as well. In 1977 he won the John Bates Clark Medal, awarded every two years to the most distinguished American economist aged 40 or under...
...Alexander was a member of the Cheka, the first Soviet secret police, during the Great Purge. An architect, Alexander helped design and supervise the construction of the Moscow-Volga Canal, which was built by slave labor in 1936. According to the diary, when Alexander was slated to receive a medal from Soviet Chairman Mikhail Kalinin for his work on the canal, Cousin Sasha on the eve of his arrest pleaded with the Chekist to try to save his wife. "Sasha wasted no time in asking him to slip Kalinin a petition to have Musya freed when he received the medal...
HOSPITALIZED. Vladimir Smirnov, 28, Soviet 1980 Olympic gold medal winner in the individual foil; in critical condition and "clinically dead" after a freak accident during a championship fencing match; in Rome. When Smirnov and West Germany's Matthias Behr lunged simultaneously, the tip of Behr's foil struck Smirnov's chest protector with unusual force. The blade snapped off at the tip; the jagged end then sprang upward, cut through Smirnov's wire-mesh face protector and sank between his left eye and left frontal lobe, severing an artery and piercing his brain...