Word: medals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...campaigning last week, despite the fact that his name will be the only one on the ballot when South Viet Nam's voters go to the polls on Sunday. He sipped rice wine with Montagnard tribesmen in the Central Highlands, popped up in Pleiku for a "nonpolitical" medal-pinning ceremony, and went on radio to demand of the voters: "I want to know your clear-cut attitude; either you have confidence...
Ernest Gruening '06, former U.S. Senator from Alaska, said last night that Daniel Ellsberg '52 "should be given the equivalent of a Congressional medal of honor" for releasing the Pentagon Papers to the press...
George B. Kistiakowsky, Lawrence Professor of Chemistry Emeritus, is the 1971 winner of the American Chemistry Society's Joseph Priestley Medal, the highest honor in American chemistry...
...gold medal--given each year to recognize distinguished service to chemistry--will be presented to Kistiakowsky at the society's national meeting in Boston next April. Kistiakowsky, 70, became professor emeritus on July 1 after 40 years at Harvard...
Died. Dr. Phil Edwards, 64, physician and Canadian Medal-winning runner at three Olympics; of a heart attack; in Montreal. Edwards starred in track at New York University, later became an authority on tropical and chest diseases. At the 1936 Olympics in Munich, he and other black athletes, including Jesse Owens, debunked the Nazi theory of Aryan superiority...