Word: medals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...oblique bid for more bucks to spend on nonnuclear bangs, Marine Corps Commandant David M. Shoup, 56, reminded the American Ordnance Association that even in the age of the H-bomb, a man with a rifle has unique utility. "An H-bomb," noted the bespectacled Medal of Honor winner, "cannot defend a base. An H-bomb cannot control or restore order where it lands. An H-bomb can only destroy...
...upside down," and conceded that Mrs. Habert was right. The arbiter elegantiarum of modern art had let a work by one of the most prestigious of modern painters stand on its head for six weeks. Pierre Matisse was gallantry itself: "Mrs. Habert," said he, "should be given a medal...
...North Africa, Europe and the South Pacific during World War II. Between wars he won a special commendation for deliberately ditching planes in Virginia's James River to test evacuation procedures. In Korea, Lieut. Colonel Harvey flew 114 missions. During his long service, his decorations included an Air Medal with eight oakleaf clusters and a D.F.C. with cluster. But last week Julian Harvey was dead by his own hand. And his suicide opened the books on a strange, star-crossed life...
...Humphrey's disc set-up deserves a gold medal for unconventionality. To begin with, his turntable is mounted on a 3/4" thick, solid mahogany motor-board, which is in turn affixed to a 1" thick slab of marble! The exact opposite of shock mounting, this insures that a chance whack by anything short of a sledge hammer will leave his needle firmly and serenely in the groove. "Firmly" isn't the right word here, though, since Bruce uses the new Audio Dynamics ADC-1 cartridge and tracks it (in his home-made professional arm) at about 3/4 of a gram...
...many of the artists, their only adventures with jewels have been for the sake of a gift, and for most, jewelry is a diversion. Says Jean Cocteau, who is represented by gold pendants and a circular medal, "I entered poetry as one enters religion, and if I happen to work at something beside writing, it is like the monks who make liqueurs or figurines for the crèche." Picasso's fascination with gold in jewelry was born in the dentist's chair; seeing gold being cast for his teeth, he bought a set of dentist...