Word: medals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next day, with what could only be described as understatement, the Federal Aviation Agency presented Kimes and his crew with the FAA's Exceptional Service medal for a "masterful feat of airmanship...
...Facts." After the U.S. entered World War I, Baruch became chairman of the War Industries Board, did so masterful a job that Wilson (who called him "Dr. Facts") awarded him the Distinguished Service Medal. As Wilson's economic adviser at the Versailles peace talks, Baruch warned against imposing overly heavy reparations on Germany. Nobody listened...
After separate trips to their home towns for more welcome-back festivities, McDivitt and White arrived in Washington. In a White House garden ceremony, the President pinned on both the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Exceptional Service Medal -the agency's second highest award (the highest, the Distinguished Service Medal, was given only to the first six astronauts...
Tulips on Cedar. Parker knows what's going on. He starred on Pennsylvania's varsity from 1955 to '57, then shifted to single sculls and in 1959 won the National championship and the Pan American Games gold medal, went all the way to the finals of Britain's Henley regatta before losing. A few months later, Harvard offered him a job coaching its frosh, moved him up to the varsity in 1963 when Head Coach Harvey Love died. "This sport tends to be conservative," says Parker. "I'm inclined to try things...
Depth of Emotion. Such agile verse, composed over three decades, has established Phyllis McGinley as one of the most widely read and acclaimed poets in the U.S., with a harvest of honors that include the Pulitzer Prize, Notre Dame's Laetare Medal and more honorary degrees than she can remember (it's nine, she thinks). Although her métier is light verse, Poet W. H. Auden sets her high on the Parnassian hill. "Where do you place work like Pope's Rape of the Lock?" he asks. "You could equally call it light verse or marvelous...