Word: medaled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Roger Adams '09, an organic chemist and professor emeritus at the University of Illinois, will also receive a medal...
President Johnson last week named two Harvard professors as winners of the 1964 National Medal of Science...
...Other medal winners this year include a leader in experimental population genetics study, a bridge designer, a developer of aeronautic and astronautic instruments, a 1934 Nobel Prize winner who pioneered studies of the earth and solar system, and researchers in mathematics, psychology, and the chemical processes of the genetic code...
...Tokyo Olympics he became the first man in 44 years to win gold medals for both the 800 meters and the metric mile (1,500 meters) - and then he announced that he intended to clip more than 4 sec. off his mile record by running the distance in 3 min. 50 sec. Last week, before 20,000 homefolks in Auckland, Snell gave it a gallant try. Ranged against him were Czechoslovakia's Josef Odlozil, silver-medal winner in the Olympic 1,500, and New Zealand's own John Davies, who won the bronze. With the possible exception...
Whether Bolivia's new rulers prove better or worse than the civilians they deposed remains to be seen. Recent military regimes in Latin America have established that they cannot immediately be presumed to be bad. They represent a different breed than the medal-jangling "strongman" epitomized by Argentina's exiled Juan Peron and Venezuela's imprisoned Perez Jimenez. Today's soldiers are deeply disturbed about Castroism, disgusted by graft, inefficiency and thoughtless political warfare. Right or wrong, they claim to have seized power to prevent chaos. In most cases, they seem content to return to constitutional...