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DIED. JOE FOSS, 87, Medal of Honor--winning World War II pilot, Governor of South Dakota, commissioner of the American Football League and head of the National Rifle Association; at a hospital near his home in Scottsdale, Ariz. Dubbed "America's No. 1 Ace" on the cover of LIFE magazine for shooting down 26 fighters and bombers in the battle for guadalcanal, he later drew controversy as a gun supporter. in 1990 he told TIME, "All guns are good guns...
She’s got the welcome wagon ready. “I’d take her on my team any day,” says junior Angela Ruggiero, who won a silver medal for the U.S. in Salt Lake and has met Hughes. “She’s really cool, very down to earth...
...Olympic medal party in Mather tonight! Whooo...
...filed a friend-of-the-court brief to argue for maintaining the tax-exempt status of Bob Jones University, despite its discriminatory policies and its ban on interracial dating. (In his defense, his office offered a list of largely symbolic accomplishments on behalf of minorities: a congressional medal for Rosa Parks, who began the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott; a task force to recognize the slaves who helped build the Capitol; a day honoring minority World War II veterans...
...period of time. Students who do well are mathematically gifted, very quick and highly creative." The past winners aren't exactly household names--unless you live in an extremely enlightened household--but they include Richard Feynman and Kenneth Wilson, two Nobel prizewinners. Three Putnam winners have won the Fields Medal, the highest honor a mathematician can receive...