Word: medals
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...Marines, Navy, Air Force, and National Guard units marched in review. Planes zoomed overhead and showered confetti on the main street, schools were closed, and one overenthusiastic patriot suggested renaming Derry "Space-town, U.S.A." In Washington President Kennedy announced that the astronaut would get NASA's Distinguished Service Medal. When Shepard's handsome wife Louise heard what her husband had achieved, she beamed with pride and joy. "This is just a baby step," she said, "compared to what we will...
...United States for three days during April, LeCorbusier received the gold medal of the American Institute of Architects at a Philadelphia banquet. The noted architect also was honored with a Doctor of Humane Letters degree by Columbia University...
Rules of the Sun. Last week he was in the U.S. for exactly three days-the maximum amount of time he could bring himself to spend in a land he has come to regard as enemy territory. His purpose was to receive at a banquet in Philadelphia the gold medal of the American Institute of Architects, and then pick up a Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Columbia University. Before accepting, he had made one stipulation: "No press, no TV, no tuxedo." But as things turned out, the master was charming...
...A.I.A. banquet, he received his medal with disarming modesty. "I make you my last confession," he said. "I live in the skin of a student." Then he was off to Manhattan for the ordeal at Columbia. He arrived on campus as sirens wailed for an air-raid drill. Students were all around bearing placards that said, "Shelters are no substitute for Peace!" He got into a coffin-sized elevator that promptly went down instead of up. "It's like a setting for an assassination," he muttered. But that night he was all smiles again. To a standing ovation...
...Here are some of the accomplishments of the Pioneers in the past four years under Armstrong: three NCAA championships (58, '60, '61); a 6-1-2 record against American amateur representatives in the World Games and the Olympics (the U.S. Nationals) including a 7-5 win over the gold medal-winning Olympic team last year and a 10-0 victory this year; wins over the West German and Swedish Olympic team; and the distinction of never losing to the Russian Nationals (two ties, 4 to 4 in 1958-59; and 2 to 2 in 1959-60). This year Denver scored...