Word: medals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them so long I just thought it'd never end," mumbled partially paralyzed, nearly blind World War I hero Sergeant Alvin York, 73, whose federal income tax debt totaled $172,000, as against a monthly income of $177.45 (all from Social Security and G.I. benefits, including his Medal...
...Crimson is now looking forward to the AAU championships, which begin next Thursday in New Haven. Among the 200 swimmers, and 12 Olympic gold medal winners entered in the competition will be Bruce Hunter, Bob Kaufmann, Jeff Lewy and Jay Shelton...
...exposed to an Aedes aegypti mosquito, which bit him on the knuckles of his right hand, was near death as he fought a 105° fever and lost 40 lbs., but finally survived to collect a $300 bonus, a $200-a-month lifetime pension and a special congressional medal. When asked why he volunteered, South Carolinian Hanberry replied: "It was the thing to do." After his Cuban ordeal, Hanberry never again entered a hospital until last December...
...Socialists, aware that their bitter strike had lost them face with Belgium's basically conservative shopkeepers and housewives, pinned their hopes on Paul-Henri Spaak, who resigned his post as NATO Secretary-General to return to Belgian politics. Last week he picked up a Medal of Freedom in Washington from President Kennedy and rushed into the fray. His broad face loomed from Socialist posters all over Belgium, and party workers declared that as a moderate, and a notable orator, he was just the man to counteract the alarm produced in staid Belgian voters by rabble-rousing André Renard...
...high jump (at 7 ft. 3¾ in.), last week's New York Athletic Club meet in Madison Square Garden was a chance for self-vindication and revenge. Undefeated in two years, Thomas went to last summer's Olympics in Rome a supposedly sure gold medal winner. But without his regular coach, Ed Flanagan, to watch him, Thomas unwittingly changed his jumping style in pre-Olympic workouts, slipped into the bad habit of dropping his trailing leg as he rolled across the bar. The result was disastrous: unable to clear 7 ft. 1 in. in three tries, Thomas...