Word: medals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fred L. Whipple, former director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and Phillips Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University, has been named recipient of the Smithsonian Institution's prestigious Henry Medal...
Kissinger will be in Oslo on December 10 to receive the Nobel medal and a cash award of about $60,000, but speculators say Le Duc Tho will be absent...
Pleased with having garnered the Nobel medal for the third time, the Department retired early last Thursday for an evening of celebration...
...Rome, the exiled leader of Tibet's Buddhists did just what the Romans do. Dressed in his official violet robe, the Dalai Lama went to see the Pope. His offerings: a portrait and his own biography of Buddha. In return Paul VI gave the Dalai Lama a pontifical medal and a book about his own trip to the Far East. The two parted beaming from a summit conference described by one Vatican watcher as "an encounter of the two Gospels," Christ's Sermon on the Mount and Buddha's Sermon on the Benares...
...brown 17-story building with what at least one travel brochure optimistically describes as "tastefully decorated rooms." At the height of the fighting on Tuesday, Carrera Manager Luis Miguel ("Mike") Gallegos−upon whose thin breast every one of last week's guests would like to hang a medal−evacuated his 270 charges and 200 employees to the cavernous second basement. It took on the atmosphere of a London tube stop during the blitz, but with a notably international flavor. A French journalist challenged all comers to Scrabble in French. An S. A.S. pilot treated friends to drinks...