Word: medals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard scientists will be among the 12 recipients of the National Medal of Science for 1967. The medal, awarded annually since 1959, is the government's highest award for outstanding achievement in mathematics, science, and engineering...
Edwin H. Land 30, president of Cambridge's Polaroid Corporation, was also named to receive a medal. He developed the Land Polaroid camera, studied color vision, and contributed to color television...
...became chief of the explosives division of the Los Alamos Laboratory of the Manhattan Project, which produced the atom bomb. For this work he received the President's Medal for Merit...
...without sentimentality, ostentation or ballyhoo, has become a national hero. The trophy room in Hope's North Hollywood home is filled like an overendowed museum with awards, honorary degrees and gifts that would be the envy of a Nobel prizewinner. One of them is the gold medal, voted by Congress and presented to him by President Kennedy in 1963, honoring him as ''America's most prized Ambassador of Good Will." It gave Hope "one sobering thought. I received this for going
...time, outwardly, the South Vietnamese soldiers encouraged the Americans and confirmed for them that what they were doing was right: Sloan received two medals from the South Vietnamese, one of them their highest medal of honor. When he was about to leave he was given a farewell dinner. "Only when I had gotten some distance form the fighting did the justification for the war begin to erode," Sloan said...