Word: medals
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...something, I give orders to set a price a little extravagant and then we never hear from them again. · · · In what looked like a New Frontier version of the Queen's List, the White House announced the names of 31 winners of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, highest peacetime U.S. civilian honor, awarded to only 24 persons since 1945. Hidden away among such names as Ralph Bunche, Pablo Casals, Felix Frankfurter, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, George Meany and Thornton Wilder were a few less well-known, though no less deserving. Among them: Genevieve Caulfield...
During World War II, Whipple developed the confusion reflectors or windows used by American planes to mix-up enemy radar statioins. Earlier, he had won the Donohue medal for independently discovering six comets...
...commemoration of courageous moments and men brings out the best in President Kennedy. He likes heroes, medal winners and war stories. He stood tall and proud last week at the White House reception for Astronaut Gordon Cooper. In Manhattan, at the brief dedication of a monument to the 4,596 American men who perished in western Atlantic waters during World War II, the President was moved to emotion and eloquence...
...their own responsibility, living with the results. It has become a rather important international institution. I suppose TIME holds the record for having been banned from more countries than any other publication of general circulation. I would suppose that in these past 40 years, that is something of a medal of merit. Of course, the thin skin of the U.S. Government, toughened by the First Amendment, has never allowed that question to arise in this country. But on more than one occasion, we in the Department of State have been asked by diplomats from this or that country, was TIME...
Obviously, the slaying of a Cuban national on Cuban soil was embarrassing to the U.S.; yet the inevitable revelation of the cumbersome cover-up was even more embarrassing. Last week Jackson, after first accepting, declined his invitation to the White House as a Medal of Honor winner, locked the doors to his San Jose home and disconnected his telephone. As for Szili, he was having some second thoughts. Said he at week's end: "Maybe I should have kept my mouth shut...