Word: medals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Midst laurels stood: Bob Hope, 60, appointed to the ten-member board that selects winners of the presidential Medal of Freedom, filling a vacancy left by Henry Cabot Lodge; Rodman Rockefeller, 31, Nelson's oldest son, given the Chilean Order of Merit (Dad got it in 1945) for being "the kind of private businessman whose contributions, energy and ideals are so badly needed for the right development of Latin America"; Columbia University's No-bel-Prizewinning Physicist Dr. Isidor Rabi, 65, named winner of the annual $1,000 Joseph Priestley Memorial Award for "services to mankind through physics...
...when he was Vice President. "Do you think this is a promotion?" one reporter asked as Reedy took over his latest assignment. Reedy hesitated, smiled, then said, "It's like shoving a man into the front line in the trenches. If he makes it, he gets the victory medal...
...afire by Kamikaze pilots off Japan on March 19, 1945, who gave last rites, organized rescue parties, carried ammunition from blistering magazines, helped make it back to port with the heaviest casualty list in U.S. naval history (432 dead, 1,000 wounded), winner of the only Congressional Medal of Honor ever awarded to a chaplain; of a ruptured aorta; in Worcester, Mass...
Freshman sensation Neville Hayes, an Olympic silver medal winner and University record holder in the 200-yard breaststroke, and sophomore Henry Frey, the Crimson's leading individual medleyist this season, are other key figures in the outlook for Abramson's squad next year...
Midst laurels stood: Poetess Phyllis McGinley, 58, awarded Notre Dame's annual Laetare Medal, the most prestigious honor conferred on a Roman...