Word: medals
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...servicemen have been killed in that Vietnamese war in which their country still does not admit to being an official combatant. Last week, the White House announced that a Medal of Honor had been awarded to Army Special Forces Captain Roger Hugh C. Donlon for "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity" in action against the Viet Cong...
Said the White House announcement: "This is the first Medal of Honor awarded to an individual who distinguished himself while serving with a friendly force engaged in an armed conflict in which the United States is not a belligerent party...
Introducing Interior Secretary Stewart Udall to 108 U.S. Olympic medal winners at a White House luncheon, President Johnson described him as a onetime "star guard on the baseball team" at the University of Arizona. An aide later issued a correction, said the President had really meant football. Actually, Udall was a basketball guard, and a good...
Hayes's national and pool records came in the 200-yard butterfly, which he did in 2:01.0. Though only a record for 20-yard pools, the time was significant because the old mark was held by Bill Yorzyk of Springfield who won a gold medal in the 1956 Olympics. Al Rose, last year's freshman captain, was second in the Crimson sweep...
Perhaps the surest winner of all for the Crimson will be yet another soph. Neville Hayes, in the butterfly events. In 1960 Hayes was a world-record holder and won a silver medal for Australia in the Olympic Games in Rome. Last year he set Harvard and national freshman butterfly records on his way to an undefeated season...