Word: medalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since then, Kissinger's reputation has become somewhat tarnished, and Washington observers have seized every opportunity to search for hints of a rift between the President and his foreign policy adviser-including last week's congenial ceremony at which Nixon awarded a Distinguished Service Medal to Kissinger's longtime deputy, General Alexander H. Haig Jr. But in the end, obviously, Kissinger's reputation-and his place in history-will stand on what finally happens in Paris...
Mention of De Gaulle leads to a talk about World War II, which leads to Dietrich's heroic three years as a front-line entertainer, for which she was awarded the U.S. Medal of Freedom and the French Legion of Honor. She is, all of a sudden, almost gay, close to voluble. She comments about Women's Lib ("It's ridiculous. I think a woman wants to be dominated by a man. Men are much cleverer than women. A dominating woman cannot be happy"). About the film directors she has most enjoyed working with (Josef von Sternberg...
...alley fighter who got into trouble. One day the director, Dr. S. Stephen Uslan. said that if Foreman liked to fight, he should get in the ring and channel the energy that way. George went along. Then it was a whole new world. Golden Gloves champion. Olympics gold medal winner. And a visit to President Johnson in the White House, to thank him for having fathered the Job Corps program. which he told the President gave "young people like me a chance for hope, dignity and self-respect...
Such a reason drew Catherine Medal, 23, a senior majoring in education, to Fulton's course at Minnesota. "I was afraid of death and didn't like to think about it," she says. "But in taking the course I got to the point where I could look at death as a natural function of life." She was so moved by the experience that she organized a high school course on death. Other students have more personal reasons for studying thanatology. One woman, for example, took the course at Wayne State University in Detroit in the hope that...
...only outward signs of wealth are his Capital Hill Farms in Lachute, Quebec, a blue and white Fleetwood Eldorado, a flashy mod wardrobe and a $400 toupee that he wore when Canadian Governor General Roland Michener presented him with the nation's highest civilian honor, the Medal of Service Award...