Word: medals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...broad jump, ran up his school's entire total of 47 points at the N.A.I.A. championships, was shaded by only 2 points by Texas Southern's title-winning track team. Boston, who generally has to wait until Tennessee State's girls (most notably Olympic Triple Gold Medal Winner Wilma Rudolph) finish training before he can use the track, and gets up at 6 a.m. on Sundays to work out, set two world broad-jump marks this season: indoors, with a 26 ft. 6-in. leap; outdoors, with a 27-ft. ½in. effort...
...read TIME'S May 19 article on our decorations and would like to point out that a basic reason, not mentioned by TIME, for lackluster medals is the almost complete "lackinterest" of medal holders in wearing them. The British know how to wear their decorations. Every veteran in a uniform, from elevator operator up, wears his ribbons and, on dress occasions, his medals. Get them out of the drawers and on the uniforms and full-dress suits, and the changes will be made...
...bullet wounds, stuffed in the trunk of the soon-to-be-abandoned car belonging to a disgruntled general named Juan Tomás Diaz. Outlived among the world's strongmen by Portugal's milder Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, Trujillo had been the model for every tinpot, medal-jingling dictator that ever rifled a Latin American treasury. Even as he died, he was on a typical Trujillo mission-a midnight meeting with one of his many mistresses, Moni Sanchez, at his San Cristóbal farm, 15 miles from Ciudad Trujillo...
...smartly at attention for 30 minutes, doffed his grey fedora as plumed battalion commanders saluted him with sabers. Later the old grad (class of '15), who made a cadet career of breaking as many Academy rules as he dared, became the fourth man to win the Sylvanus Thayer Medal* (named for a 19th century superintendent known as the Father of the Academy), for "devotion and service to his country." Said Ike, describing the ideals that Thayer handed down to generations of the long grey line: "It's something in the heart. As long as it stays, America will...
...NASA will say who is responsible for Commander Shepard's D.S.M., but that perhaps is a blessing. One side of the medal shows a planet and satellite-a motif that any schoolboy might have thought up. On the other side is the inevitable laurel wreath. As for the lettering, Designer Henry Hart of the Smithsonian Institution has just one word: "Atrocious...