Word: medals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...extraordinary advances and progress of this revolution despite the maneuvers of enemy forces." Every Algerian, he said, "knows, follows and admires" the Cuban revolution; Algerians celebrate "as a national event, the victory of Playa Girón."* As a new nation, he said, Algeria has struck only one medal of honor, and this will be given to Castro...
Mark's before Yale, is also a World War II hero (Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal), has lived in Colorado for the past 17 years. Last week, speaking at Denver's Cherry Hills Country Club, Dominick told some 300 assembled ladies that "you can't get money out of Washington unless you first put it there. We get back only 13? on every dollar we send in. There are an enormous number of things being done by the Federal Government that can be put back in our own area. Centralization of more and more power...
...longer than scheduled, and twice, when Piser tried to leave, the Pope kept him on because there was more to say. A few hours later, a representative of the Vatican sent for Piser, told him that the Pope had been particularly pleased with their conversation, and handed him a medal. Piser recognized it as a copy of the Pope's favorite medal of himself, struck by famed Italian Sculptor Giacomo Manz...
...Corcoran, 78, an adventurous Washington. D.C. socialite who squandered his inheritance by the age of 30, joined the French Foreign Legion in 1916 and the U.S. Foreign Service in 1920, where later, as a wartime consul in neutral Sweden, he earned the U.S.'s highest civilian honor, the Medal of Freedom, for personal espionage that pinpointed Nazi Germany's V-2 rocket bases at Peenemünde; of a heart attack; in San Diego's U.S. Naval Hospital...
...more hours of interviewing, and at one point, to check the story that Dirksen keeps his pants pockets full of enough odds and ends to cover a variety-store counter, he asked the Senator to empty the contents on the spot. Dirksen complied: a pocket knife, a St. Christopher medal, an empty leather pillbox, a cold sniffer, an odd-shaped piece of rough jade, a magnifying reading glass, a 1955 medal of the Kewanee. Ill., Masonic Lodge, a silver dollar money clip, two heavily burdened key rings, and a quarter...