Word: medals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that "Marcos failed in becoming the only Filipino to win America's highest military award." Actually, three Filipinos have been awarded the Medal of Honor: Sergeant José Calugas, Battery B, 88th Field Artillery, Philippine Scouts, at Culis, Bataan, 1942; Fireman 2nd Class Telesforo Trinidad, U.S.N. on board U.S.S. San Diego, 1915; Private José B. Nisperos, 34th Company, Philippine Scouts, Lapurap, Basilan...
...with blue-and-white bunting and fitted out as a speakers' stand. On the stand were Ky, Thieu and Lodge, who had arrived earlier. Before he began to speak, Johnson handed out three Distinguished Service Crosses, a Navy Cross (the nation's second highest decorations, after the Medal of Honor) and a Silver Star to five...
...list goes on: Rafer Johnson won the decathlon in the Rome Olympics right after his cover (Aug. 29, 1960); Shotputter Parry O'Brien (Dec. 3, 1956) captured the Olympic Gold Medal in Melbourne that month; and Oscar Robertson (Feb. 17, 1961) is still among basketball's top scorers...
Midst laurels stood: former President Harry Truman, 82, honored with the George C. Marshall Medal of the Association of the United States Army for "selfless service to the United States" and, among other things, implementation of the Marshall Plan; Polaroid Corp. President Edwin H. Land, 57, named to receive the Case Institute of Technology's $5,000 Michelson Award; Lyndon Johnson, named to receive the first Margaret Sanger Award in World Leadership of the Planned Parenthood Federation for "contributions to world understanding of population planning...
Wyeth's largest retrospective show to date, 223 works, is currently on view in Philadelphia's 161-year-old Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.* At the opening, he received the academy's gold medal, the 36th winner in the train of artists like Winslow Homer, Whistler and Sargent, recalled: "I was twelve years old when my father first brought me to the academy, and I . . ." Then he could say no more and sat down...