Word: medalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carriage. Aside from Yankee baiting, the inauguration ceremonies were characterized by Allende's efforts to project the common touch. As diplomats arrived in medal-spangled military uniforms or white tie and tails, Allende received them in a dark gray business suit. Instead of riding in the traditional two-horse carriage to the presidential palace, he made the trip in an open Ford convertible. From the palace balcony, Allende, who won a narrow plurality as the leader of a coalition of far-left parties that includes the Communists, told the crowd below: "The people today enter the house of Presidents...
Mayr Wins National Medal...
...Ernst Mayr, director and professor of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, received one of the six 1970 National Medal of Science Awards for his contributions to systematics, bio-geography, the study of birds, and the evolution of animal populations...
...Israeli emissaries who once slipped into Jordan in Arab disguise to plead with the King was Golda Meir. A Palestinian gunman killed Abdullah at Jerusalem's historic Al Aqsa mosque. The assassin also fired at Grandson Hussein, who was standing beside Abdullah, but the bullet ricocheted off a medal on his uniform. Abdullah was succeeded by Hussein's father, Talal. But after one year, schizophrenia overcame Talal, and Hussein, 18, was proclaimed monarch...
...design the 1937 Cup winner. Ranger. And, like the old master, he is very much to the manner born. A product of Philadelphia's Main Line, Chance has been a water baby "since my mother dropped me overboard when I was two." His father won a yachting gold medal in the 1952 Olympics. Sisters Jan and Elli are top small-boat skippers, while Uncle Henry is a noted ocean racer. Brit Jr. began sailing tiny sneak boxes on New Jersey's Barnegat Bay, moved on to the E scows his grandfather imported from the Great Lakes. After three...