Word: medaled
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...Morgan received the American Bar Association Medal, the Association's highest honor...
...sophomore at the University of Colorado, Kidd, 22, finished second in the special slalom at Innsbruck in 1964, thus becoming the first American ever to win an Olympic medal in men's skiing. Two weeks ago, in the season's first big meet at Hindelang, Germany, he was up against the fastest man in Europe: France's Jean-Claude Killy, 22, winner of seven major slalom races in 1965. SURPRISE AT HINDELANG read the next day's headline in France's sports daily, l'Equipe, as Kidd, trailing Killy by most of a full...
Died. Clark Blanchard Millikan, 62, California Institute of Technology aeronautics professor, a leading pioneer in wind-tunnel research and recipient, with his late father, Caltech Head Dr. Robert A. Millikan, of a 1949 Presidential Medal for Merit for their contribution to the development of the jet-assisted take-off rocket (1941) and the U.S.'s first successful high-altitude sounding rocket (the 1945 WAC Corporal); of congestive heart failure, in Pasadena, Calif...
...hadn't racked up his back in his sophomore year in 1919. Anyway, he'd run pretty well later on, founding Pan American Airways in 1927. Chairman and chief executive officer of Pan Am, Trippe accepted the foundation's 1965 Gold Medal Award at the banquet in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria and chuckled: "The selection committee must have gone berserk...
Serving with Cox on the panel are David M. Shoup, former commandant of the Marine Corps, Thomas Vail, publisher and editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and Ralph Metcalfe, Chicago alderman and former Olympic medal winner. The panel's chairman is Theodore W. Kheel, who was the mediator in the recent New York newspaper strike. the NCAA...