Word: medals
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...denser, more individualistic prose. His story on black families making a Christmas pilgrimage by train back to their old homes in the South is one of the best in the collection. Jon Nordheimer writes with a restrained power and simplicity, particularly in his forceful piece on the Congressional Medal of Honor veteran who was shot while robbing a grocery store...
Skunk Works. Johnson, who retires this month shortly before his 65th birthday, received the Air Force's highest civilian medal that December afternoon in Ohio, and later the same day was inducted into the Aviation Hall of Fame. Those were only the latest tributes in an extraordinary career. During more than four decades at Lockheed, Johnson personally directed the design and production of 40 planes, including the first American combat jet (F-80), the U-2 spy plane and the Mach 3 (three times the speed of sound) SR-71, which recently flew from New York to London...
...Parker developed and coached the first U.S. men's national rowing camp. His crew went on to win a silver medal in the Munich Olympics that summer...
Canales was a six-medal winner for his native Puerto Rico in the Caribbean Games last summer while Gordon is a national record holder in the breaststroke in South Africa. "Gordon has been very successful on a minimum training program," coach Ray Essick said yesterday. "We're going to see if he can handle a stepped-up program this winter. And Toal is as good a freshman diver as I've seen...
...Viet Nam, for so many elections a burning issue, seemed barely to touch voter consciousness this time out. Four former P.O.W.s who ran for office each met with defeat. South Dakota Republican Leo K. Thorsness, a Medal of Honor holder who spent six years in a North Vietnamese P.O.W. camp, seemed to threaten Senator George McGovern at the outset, but faded as the campaign wore on. In California, 32-year-old Republican David Rehmann, six years a P.O.W., lost his bid for Congress to Santa Ana Mayor Jerry Patterson. In Georgia, Republican Quincy Collins, 43, an ex-Air Force colonel...