Word: medals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rewards of fame were heaped upon Astronaut Alan Shepard Jr. last week. In Washington, where crowds lined the historic parade route between the White House and the Capitol, the President pinned the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Distinguished Service Medal on Shepard's chest. At Grand Bahama Island, where Shepard was debriefed after his ride, an airport was to be named after him. At New Jersey's Palisades Amusement Park, an earth-bound spaceship was renamed the Commander Alan B. Shepard Jr. Rocket Ride...
...pair of little-known prizes with large cash perquisites went to four U.S. scientists last week for their work in practical atomics. To Jesse Charles Johnson, director of the Atomic Energy Commission's raw materials division, went the Ambrose Monell Medal and a whopping $25,000 for directing the AEC's extraordinarily successful uranium prospecting and extraction program. Another $25,000, and congratulations from President Kennedy, went to a trio of Army civilian engineers for developing a nuclear explosive that has yet to be tested as a weapon. Robert M. Schwartz got $15,000 from the Secretary...
This month Zorach will receive the gold medal for sculpture from the National Institute of Arts and Letters-an award that should prompt a fresh look at a man whose perennial appeal is that he has dared to seem passe. While other sculptors have taken to the welding torch or to bolting together abstract constructions out of objects found in city dumps, Zorach's work remains warm and whole some. He has at times teetered precariously close to sentimentality but has never given way to corn...
Since the days of ancient Athens, a brave act has deserved a proud and artistic medal-everywhere but in the U.S. Last week when President Kennedy honored the country's first astronaut, all he had to pin on the lapel of Commander Alan Shepard was something that looked as if it might have come out of a Cracker Jack box. The Distinguished Service Medal of the National Aeronautics and Space
...Navy Medal of Honor is not only inelegant, it does not even hang gracefully from its ribbon. The Bronze and Silver Stars are almost childish in design, and the propeller motif of the Distinguished Flying Cross looks like the work of a mechanic. Though the Legion of Merit is better, even it seems shoddy compared to France's Legion of Honor...