Word: medal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Camelot West: the Chicago of lace-curtain Irish who have pushed their way to the top. Multimillionaire Mike Cronin, who beds women faster than Joe Kennedy could say "Gloria Swanson," has set the course for his two sons. Paul, the Notre Dame boy who goes off to win a Medal of Honor in the Korean War, is going to be President. Sean is bound for the priesthood, and will of course be a Cardinal. Paul's wife is to be Nora, orphaned daughter of a family friend and a foster child in the Cronin home. Sean loves her; Paul...
...industry. Says he: "This time the haze of skepticism was so thick you could cut it with a knife." Skeptics will have another shot in October when his next film, tentatively titled First Blood, takes him outside the ring. This time Stallone is a veteran who won the Medal of Honor in Viet Nam and who finds himself considered almost an enemy of the state back home. "I play a man on the run from the cops and the National Guard," he ex plains. "I have dialogue just at the beginning and end. The rest of the time I speak...
...Movement, captured 31% of the Republican votes, criticizing Thone for his support of Reagan's farm and economic policies. On the Democratic side, a political novice, Robert Kerrey, 38, swept 71% of the ballots in his party's primary. A Viet Nam veteran who won a Congressional Medal of Honor, Kerrey is an imposing speaker, but some of his causes-a gay rights ordinance, for instance-may be too permissive for his generally conservative state. Kerrey, whose campaign ads stress his success as a builder and manager of restaurants and fitness centers, says he is confident of beating...
...Overseas Press Club last week presented its 1981 award for best magazine interpretation of foreign affairs to TIME Associate Editor Walter Isaacson and Correspondents Bruce van Voorst and Johanna McGeary for their cover story "Arming the World" (Oct. 26, 1981). The esteemed Robert Capa gold medal for photographic reporting was awarded to TIME'S Rudi Frey for his intimate coverage of Poland's Solidarity movement and the imposition of martial law. The Olivier Rebbot award for magazine photography from abroad went to Nakram Gadel Karim for his photos in TIME of the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat...
...poems I was writing." Last week, when he died at 89 in Boston, MacLeish's 40-odd volumes of poetry, plays and commentary had won official rewards ranging from honorary doctorates (Columbia, Dartmouth, the University of Illinois) to three Pulitzer Prizes (1932, 1953, 1959) to the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1977). Yet the conflicts between what he wrote and what he wanted to write remained forever unresolved...