Word: medals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last March 26, his 88th birthday, he received from President Kennedy a medal voted him by Congress. Earlier, President Eisenhower had named him a consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress...
...major events he entered, including the 65-meter world championship at Zakopane, Poland. Last week, competing against 72 jumpers from 14 nations in the German-Austrian Four Hills Championship, Engan demonstrated why he is the odds-on favorite to win an Olympic gold medal...
...Yale Law School, finally made the biggest time of all when President Kennedy sent him in as Associate Supreme Court Justice in 1962. In recognition of White's unsurpassed career as athlete and jurist, the National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame gave him its fifth annual Gold Medal Award. Another honor: a SPORTS ILLUSTRATED 1962 Silver All-America Award, calling him "the greatest athlete of his time...
Accepting his humptyninth award-the MacDowell Colony Medal from the Academy of American Poets-white-maned Poet Robert Frost, 88, fixed his affectionate audience with a mock-sincere twinkle in his eye and quite clearly said: "I wish my mother could...
Laurence Harvey is properly icy as the strange Korean War veteran who won a Congressional Medal of Honor for leading a patrol to nearly incredible successes. Frank Sinatra happily avoids overplaying a major in that patrol who begins to wonder what actually happened on it. There is a broadly comic portrayal of a boobish U.S. Senator by James Gregory that calls to mind the antics of the late Joseph McCarthy, and Angela Lansbury is repellantly vicious as his scheming wife...