Word: medals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...signature to the new treaty with the U.S. (TIME, Jan. 25). Just a century ago, in this same room, President James Buchanan received the first diplomatic delegation to leave Japan in modern times, which was why President Eisenhower, to the surprise of the Japanese, presented Kishi with a commemorative medal bearing the face of President Buchanan, one of the U.S.'s least-remembered Presidents...
More conspicuous in the minds of most men assembled in the East Room were more recent events. Watching the ceremony were Marine Commandant David Shoup, who earned his Medal of Honor at Tarawa, and Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh ("31-Knot") Burke, who earned his nickname by sending his destroyer flotillas racing against the Japanese fleet at their top speed. There may well have been memories for Prime Minister Kishi, who, in bygone days, signed Japan's declaration of war against...
...name," he snapped. "If you've anything to say about me, I'm P.C. 369 B." Cockney Courage. What a grateful family had to say about its rescuer was glowing enough to provide Oakes-to his immense surprise-with Britain's coveted civilian award, the George Medal. Yet the constable's finest hour, as British Freelance Writer Collier makes clear in his meticulous chronicle of a Saturday night during London's blitz, was only one of many. Despite such selfless cockney courage, when the all-clear -blew, 1,436 Londoners were dead; another...