Word: medalic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...everybody has been happy with the Boston Marathon. Olympic Gold Medal Winner Frank Shorter has run at Boston only twice, the last time in 1979. Among other reasons, he could never coax so much as a plane ticket out of Cloney. Sneaker companies have probably picked up a few tabs over the years in Boston, but the runners have never been paid or even had expenses defrayed by the B.A.A...
Lyons received numerous awards throughout his career, including the Alfred I. DuPont award in 1964 as the nation's outstanding newscaster, a 1957 George Foster Peabody Award for Broadcasting, the 1959 Richard Lauterbach Civil Liberties award, the 1962 Freedom Foundation Medal, and the Overseas Press Club Citation...
Both the rising criticism and the newly mild presidential response were on display last week, when Reagan visited Manhattan to receive a gold medal from the National Conference of Christians and Jews for "courageous leadership in governmental, civic and humanitarian affairs." In contrast to the friendly demonstrations that had greeted the President in Oklahoma only the week before, thousands of outraged protesters outside the New York Hilton Hotel broke into chants of "Money for jobs, not for war, U.S. out of El Salvador!" Ten blocks away, at the Lincoln Center campus of Fordham University, 300 people, including a few members...
...direct confrontation that could trigger a nuclear war. Those worries were, in a sense, symbolized by a rhetorical exchange between Ronald Reagan and Leonid Brezhnev last week that probably did more to augment superpower tensions than to ease them. Speaking to the 17th Congress of Soviet Trade Unions, the medal-bedecked Soviet leader announced that Moscow was immediately suspending its deployment of new SS-20 nuclear missiles west of the Urals and targeted at Western Europe. The freeze would last until an arms agreement was reached with the U.S., or until the North Atlantic Treaty Organization began deploying...
DIED. Pierpont Morgan Hamilton, 83, retired Air Force major general who was awarded a Congressional Medal of Honor in World War II for negotiating a truce with French soldiers during the Allied invasion of North Africa; in Brentwood, Calif. Hamilton, great-great-grandson of Alexander Hamilton and nephew of J.P. Morgan, later helped set policy for NATO forces...