Word: medals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sugar-Rocker Craig Johnson, 15. Modest Mark admitted some identification problems in his new career. "I'm not Tom Jones and I'm not a cow," he allowed. Perhaps thinking nostalgically of the days when all it took to gain a cheer was winning another gold medal, he added, "This is a lot harder work than swimming...
Bill Russell, 40, has been a big man in professional sports since 1956, when he led the University of San Francisco to its second straight national championship and won an Olympic gold medal as a member of the triumphant U.S. basketball team. Soon afterward the 6-ft. 9½-in. Russell joined the Boston Celtics, and in 13 years of competition he was named most valuable player five times and starred on eleven championship teams. During two of those championship seasons (1968 and 1969), Russell was player-coach for the Celts, the first.black coach in the history of the National...
...Ellison received the Medal of Freedom--the nation's highest civilian honor--from President Johnson. He has collected a number of other honoraria, including the Chevalier de l'Ordre Arts et Letters of France, honorary degrees from eight institutions, and several fellowships...
...Environmental Protection Agency might be called on to inspect candidates' home furnaces. Or the FBI would have to run a fingerprint check. The Pentagon would then attest to the validity of the candidate's Good Conduct Medal. All of this public reassurance, of course, to be financed by the public...
...window of a Roman coin shop. It had been missing from the Pope's apartment since 1969. The original seller was traced to his job at the telephone exchange, where he protested, none too convincingly, that he was just an innocent hobbyist who had bought the medal for a song from coworkers. Within the month, three other telephone men had been arrested, and details of several break-ins emerged. Not only had the Pope been ripped off, but so had his secretary, Monsignor Pasquale Macchi, whose study had been fleeced of coins, a jeweled pectoral cross and a gold...