Word: medals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pennsylvania biophysicist, beautifully handling the .32-11. 6-in. sloop Complex III, the world 5.5-meter sailing championship, by defeating 24 other boats from eleven nations at Poole, England. Though disqualified for colliding with another yacht in the fourth of six races, Chance, who won an Olympic gold medal with his 5.5-meter yacht in 1952, sailed so well in the others (two firsts, a second, a third, a sixth) that he ended with 6.184 points and a margin of more than 400 points over the second-place finisher...
Only once every five years does the American Academy of Arts and Letters give its Award of Merit Medal to a painter-a procedure that prevents hasty recognition of a talent that might turn out to be only one year's fad. Last week, as if underlining its case for judging in perspective, the academy presented the award and $1,000 to an artist who is three years retired from a careful half-century of working in a style far removed from the painting that dominates today's galleries...
...need every advantage we can get to lick our competition." Chandler Hovey's Easterner, trounced in 14 straight races in 1958, has undergone major surgery. Her mast has been stepped aft some 18 in.; she has a new keel, new sails, and a new skipper: Olympic Gold Medal Winner George O'Day. Henry Mercer's Weatherly, sailed by canny Bus Mosbacher, has been stripped for action...
Also: to Patrick S. Nagie III '62, the Lloyd McKim Garrison prize, income from the fund and a silver medal, for a group of poems (honorable mention went to Charles Lowry '65, for a group of poems); aid the Susan Anthony Potter comparative literature prize, to Peter P. Brooks 2G, income from the fund, for thesis entitled "The Rest is Silence: Hamlet as Decadent" (second prize to Renata Addler 2G, for thesis entitled "The problem of Poetic Opacity in Translating 'Die Aufzeichnungen Des Malte Laurids Briggs...
...obvious remedial approach is to provide a substitute adult medal with whom boys with unacceptable fathers son identity--a Boy Scout leader, Big Brother, athletic director, a man interested in various hobbies who in addition has the gift of understanding and love of human beings. But such a person would be in a better position to deal effectively with a boy if he know something of his traits and their orientation...