Word: medals
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...John Glenn seemed almost destined for last week's time of triumph. All of his adult years he has been pursuing the stars. As a test pilot and a combat flyer with 149 missions in World War II and Korea (he holds five Distinguished Flying Crosses and an Air Medal with 18 clusters), Glenn had lived with supersonic speed and the constant possibility of sudden death. To the millions who saw and heard him last week, it was obvious that John Glenn was a perfect choice to become the first American to orbit the earth...
...mice, screech owls, coyotes and katydids." Searching Their Faces. Apart from his performance, his brusque manner and salty language has endeared him to the corps. An Indiana farm boy who took a math major at DePauw University and went directly into the Marines from ROTC, Shoup earned a Congressional Medal of Honor by directing the 2nd Marine Division in its bloody, 76-hour assault on Tarawa, despite a badly wounded leg. Terse and tough, he constantly urges his commanders to know their men better. He asks them: "Do you search the faces of your men every day? Do you know...
...time or another, vaulters have experimented with ash, hickory, bamboo. steel and aluminum as well as fiber glass. Bob Mathias used a fiber-glass pole to win the Olympic decathlon back in 1952; Greek Pole Vaulter George Roubanis used one when he took a bronze medal at Melbourne in 1956. But the fiber-glass pole is no guarantee of success: all but a handful of the U.S.'s top 20 vaulters now use it, and only Uelses has managed 16 ft. Even complainer Bragg tried a fiber-glass pole; unable to master it, he went back to aluminum. Says...
Although Browning has yet to achieve the international reputation enjoyed by such contemporaries as Van Cliburn and Glenn Gould, he has had his share of triumphs: a winner of the coveted Leventritt Award in 1955, a gold-medal winner in 1956 at Brussels' Queen Elisabeth Concours (in which he finished second to Russia's Vladimir Ashkenazy). Unlike Cliburn, who is often identified with Tchaikovsky and other romantics, and Gould, who polished his reputation on Bach. Pianist Browning has not been linked with any school, but favors Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert-German and Austrian composers that he feels...
...knew beforehand that Khrushchev was tough-but only at Vienna did he discover how tough. "The difficulty of reaching accord was dramatized in those two days," he says today. There was no shouting or shoe banging, but the meeting was grim. At one point Kennedy noted a medal on Khrushchev's chest and asked what it was. When Khrushchev explained that it was for the Lenin Peace Prize, Kennedy coldly replied: "I hope you keep...