Word: medals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cabinet. For last week's ceremony, the governors showed up in Kinshasa's Place Braconnier in a sartorial array of cutaway coats, tails, business suits and even one black corduroy jacket. When they were properly in line, Mobutu marched stiffly down the ranks, planting a medal on each chest and a noisy kiss on each neck. Then he climbed into his black Ford convertible and was driven off, standing at attention in the back seat...
George A. Willmore is a helicopter pilot who has flown 400 assault operations in Viet Nam, has had his craft hit by gunfire 23 times, has twice been shot down and has collected the Bronze Star and eight oakleaf clusters for his Air Medal. Now Captain Willmore, 31, has become the first and only serviceman in the Vietnamese war to declare for public office in the U.S. Willmore is seeking the Democratic nomination for Congressman in Idaho's Second District, has already won the party's official endorsement. Last week he started home to prepare for the August...
Hopping purposefully in and out of the open cockpits is Anti-hero George Peppard, cast as Stachel, an upstart fly-boy whose killer instincts devastate both friend and foe before he can claim "the Blue Max," pilot slang for Germany's equivalent of the Medal of Honor.* In the novel by Jack D. Hunter, Stachel was a murderous, alcoholic blackmailer, but a trio of adapters has softened the edges of Peppard's role, following the unwritten Hollywood law that a hero-heel must be boyish, winning, and a terror abed. As a nod to custom, death...
...fellow South Carolinian, Brigadier General John F. T. Kennedy, 80, who had received the Medal of Honor for action against Philippine guerrillas in 1909, and stood proudly by last week as Johnson hung the nation's highest emblem of heroism -only the fourth awarded for action in Viet Nam-around Lieut. Williams' neck. "This is the greatest thing that has ever happened to me and the greatest thing that ever will happen," said Williams. He recalled that one Commander-in-Chief-it was Truman-had said he would rather have the Medal of Honor than be President, adding...
...some day." At the White House, Press Secretary Bill Moyers told reporters that Carpenter's valor had impressed the President too. "He finds it an inspiring chapter in the Viet Nam story," said Moyers. Fittingly enough, Bill Carpenter was nominated by his field commander last week for the Medal of Honor...