Word: medals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last surviving example of the medal-jangling school of self-enriching Latin American dictators is executing a cynical maneuver. After 31 years, the Dominican Republic's Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, a strongman of the extreme right, is turning left. He does so not from conviction, but in an angry tyrant's reaction to the determination of his neighbors-including the U.S.-to be finished with him, and to the mounting desire of his own people to do away with...
With 16 atomic submarines in service, Rickover stood again on the Nautilus today--the sailing's sixth anniversary--and received the Navy's highest peacetime decoration, the Distinguished Service Medal...
Rickover Receives Medal...
...Decathlon Man Rafer Johnson (TIME cover, Aug. 29), whose gold medal in last summer's Olympic Games was won as much on gumption as talent, went the A.A.U.'s James E. Sullivan Memorial Trophy as the outstanding U.S. amateur athlete of 1960. As the world's top sports man - pro or amateur - SPORTS ILLUSTRATED tapped golf's confident Arnold Palmer (TIME cover, May 2), who staged two cliffhanging rallies to win both the Masters and U.S. Open crowns, went on to win a record $80,738 for the year...
When the Russian soldier (Vladimir Ivashov) can run no more, he falls in a foxhole, finds a bazooka there, turns it on the pursuing tank, destroys it and another one too. Offered a medal, the hero-who is only 19 years old-begs leave instead to go home and see his mother. His journey is the thread on which three luminous episodes are strung...