Word: medals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beauty is more developed than that of a man. If a flight seems beautiful to a man, it would seem even more so to a woman." How did he feel about becoming a celebrity? "I am still an ordinary mortal. My gold star, Hero of the Soviet Union medal, bears the number 11,175. That means 11,174 people accomplished something very notable before me." Before the mob scene was over, a dozen women had swooned under the combined impact of the crush and Yuri's sex appeal...
...look at the waiting crowds and insisted the top be kept down on his Bentley convertible for the drive into the city. "If they can stand in the rain,'' he said, "so can I." The Amalgamated Union of Foundry Workers presented him with an honorary membership medal inscribed "Moulding Together for a Better World." Replied onetime Metalworker Yuri graciously: "I am still a foundry worker at heart...
...mortar shell fragment in fighting near Cassino in 1943. Applying for a fresh Band-Aid, he was handed a Purple Heart to go with it-and turned the incident into an incisive cartoon. "Just gimme a coupla aspirin," says Willie to the Medical Corpsman offering him a medal. "I already got a Purple Heart...
...vanity, "has penetrated through. Now these things come to me." Next month the city of Frankfurt will award him its coveted Goethe Prize, which it has given to Thomas Mann, Albert Schweitzer and Sigmund Freud. Next fall the Duke of Edinburgh will present Gropius with the gold medal of Britain's Royal Society of Arts. Will Gropius have time next month to attend the formal opening of the embassy in Athens? "No. I don't think I can make it. I'm too busy," says the old architect with just the trace of a smile...
...contributions to nuclear and theoretical physics, to peaceful uses of atomic energy, and to the security of the U.S.," the Atomic Energy Commission last week gave its Enrico Fermi Award (gold medal and $50,000) to Physicist Hans Albrecht Bethe of Cornell. Both the honor and the honorarium were deserved; seldom has an immigrant done more for his adopted country...