Word: medals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then the President gave Westy the second oak leaf cluster for his Distinguished Service Medal-awarded after the Tet offensive. Resor declared that the U.S. effort in Viet Nam is on the "threshold of complete success." In response, Westy said his forces had "denied to the enemy a battlefield victory" and "arrested the spread of Communism in Southeast Asia." Then he saluted the Commander-in-Chief, and Lady Bird asked everybody into the Blue Room for coffee and cookies...
...team. From the Sato camp came other celebrities. Toko Kon, 70, is a Henry Milleresque Buddhist monk who gained fame as a writer of pornographic short stories, now likes to sling outrageous insults at prominent figures on a television talk show. Hirofumi Daimatsu, 47, coached Japan's Gold Medal women's volleyball team in the 1964 Olympics, and Shintaro Ishihara, 35, is the author of 22 novels on the attitudes of Japanese youth; he drew the largest vote (3,016,000) ever won by a Japanese parliamentary candidate...
...American Institute of Architects is presenting its Gold Medal to Marcel Breuer this week. It may be a good thing this is happening in Portland, Ore., 2,445 miles away from Manhattan, where such an award ceremony right now would be sure to bring out pickets. Why would anybody want to picket Breuer, a kindly man of 66 and a distinguished architect whose Whitney Museum is one of the finest things that any designer has done for Manhattan in years? Because last week Breuer unveiled his plans for a $100 million, 55-story office building-to be placed...
...Harvard lost to the Vesper Club of Philadelphia at the 'Olympic trials, and Vesper went on to win a gold medal for the United States at Tokyo...
...sense of the dramatic is more aroused by violence than by the "effort to establish harmony and good will." Among U.S. heroes, George Custer outranks William Penn, who pacified Indians with kindness rather than carbines. How many American boys would rather win the Nobel Peace Prize than the Medal of Honor...