Word: medals
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...part of the full-honors retirement ceremony, Taylor reviewed the troops, stopping occasionally to talk with a soldier, inspected some howitzers and found them spotless. That done, he received from McNamara his third oakleaf cluster in lieu of a fourth Distinguished Service Medal. Said McNamara, borrowing the title of Taylor's The Uncertain Trumpet, his post-retirement analysis of U.S. defense ills: "Maxwell Taylor has never sounded an uncertain trumpet. He will always be one of the first to whom we turn with the hard tasks, the great challenges...
Samuel Eliot Morison '08, Jonathan Trumbell Professor of American History, Emeritus, and Historian on the 300th Anniversary of Harvard College, was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom last week...
...American Bar Association honored Pound in 1940 with a medal for "conspicuous service to American jurisprudence...
...kingpin skipper for the past decade, Harald was named by the Royal Yacht Club to represent his country in the 5.5-meter yacht class at the 1964 Olympics. Sailing the Fram III, designed by U.S. Master Draftsman Bill Luders, Harald is rated a good bet for a medal of some sort, but it had better be gold if he is to maintain status in court circles. Both his father, King Olaf, and his good friend, Greece's King Constantine, hold gold medals for sailing won at the Olympics...
Prospect of Gold. The bait that lured Long back into competition this season, of course, is the prospect of a gold medal at the 1964 Olympics. He will not lack for competition in Tokyo. Randy Matson, a 19-year-old Texas A. & M. freshman, already has a 64 ft. 10½ in. throw to his credit this spring. But by the time the Olympics roll around, Long may be hurling that 16-lb. ball all the way into orbit. "I've always felt that somebody would hit 70 ft. some day," he says...