Word: medals
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Paul D. Bartlett, living Professor of Chemistry recently won the 1962 August August-Wilhelm von Hoffman medal awarded by the Deutscher Chomiker for outstanding research achievement. Bartlett received the award April 26 in Dean...
...meritorious public service award, which goes to a newspaper; local reporting under deadline; local reporting not under deadline; national and international reporting; editorial writing; editorial cartooning; and news photography. A gold medal is the public service award; $1,000 goes to the winning journalists...
This event has been won in the past for Harvard by such well-knowns as George O'Day, gold-medal Olympic winner in the 5.5 class, and one John F. Kennedy, better known for his touch football prowess...
...successful hydrofoil system). He pushed the early work on manned satellites, was named to direct Project Mercury in 1958, set up the vital standards that made last week's successful flight possible-and stuck to them under pressure. Gilruth, who with Glenn received NASA's Distinguished Service Medal from President Kennedy last week, is already busy directing studies on the next U.S. giant step into space: Project Apollo, which aims at putting three Americans on the moon. He considers the U.S. space effort the tortoise to Russia's hare-but feels that the tortoise will soon pass...
...genius of Eero Saarinen was rewarded twice last week. The New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects presented his widow, Aline, with its Medal of Honor, a tribute to the "combined esthetic delights and technical rewards" of Saarinen's diverse forms. And the Columbia Broadcasting System announced that construction will start this spring on its new 38-story freestanding tower-Saarinen's only building in Manhattan and his only skyscraper...