Word: medal
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DIED. Harry Vaughan, 87, retired Army major general who as military aide and loyal adviser to President Harry Truman from 1945 to 1953 embroiled his boss in a number of embarrassing controversies, among them receiving seven deep freezers from lobbyists in 1945 and three years later for accepting a medal from Argentina's Juan Perón; of a heart attack; at Fort Belvoir...
...reporting was done by Moscow Bureau Chief Bruce Nelan and Reporter-Researcher John Kohan, who spent months gathering detailed impressions of life in the U.S.S.R. In addition, the Overseas Press Club's Robert Capa Gold Medal went last week to Photographer Steve McCurry for his dramatic series of TIME photographs of the war in Afghanistan...
...heroism, Carney, who had been born a slave in Norfolk, became the first black to win the Congressional Medal of Honor...
...competitiveness that makes Gaines outspoken about last year's boycott of the Moscow Olympics. "All the disappointments in my career, my life, could not add up to that one disappointment. I'd rather have one Olympic gold medal than five world records 'cause you just can't take that medal away. I just can't say I beat their times at Moscow and won four gold medals--that's bull, anything could've happened," he sights...
...time when women swimmers did not lift weights and collegiate nationals carried little prestige. Boglioli, encouraged by her husband, lost 40 lbs. and returned to competition with a sensational record-setting performance at the 1976 AIAW championship. Her star reached its zenith when she captured the bronze medal in the 100-meter fly at the Montreal Olympics and swam on the gold-metal-winning 400-meter Free Relay at age 21--the oldest member of the women's swim team...