Word: medals
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Richard D. Brauer, Perkins Professor of Mathematies, has been awarded the National Medal of Science for his lifetime work in abstract algebra and number theory...
...Tribune is also restoring capitalization that was swept away years ago by McCormick. For decades, the paper's "down" style decreed orient, soviet, communism. The only medal or memorial allowed upper case was the Purple Heart. Kirkpatrick explains that the return to "up" style was made "as a service to the reader, so he can scan a story rapidly, and important things such as the name of an organization will stand...
Died. Lillian Board, 22, British track star, winner of a silver medal for the 400-meter dash at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City and of two gold medals-800-meter and 1600-meter relay-at the 1969 European Games in Athens; of intestinal cancer; in Munich...
...from the small, calm town of Melito Irpino, where he was born, to the inferno of Viet Nam, and from the fields of Melito to the chaotic city of New York. We believe in the Minichiello who fought bravely in the rains of Viet Nam and earned a medal...
...member of champion crews at Cornell, Stowe had stroked Philadelphia's amateur Vesper Boat Club to a gold medal in the 1964 Olympics and kept in shape by rowing on the Saigon River while a Navy lieutenant. He extolled crew as a way to learn the virtues of "discipline, sacrifice, teamwork and sportsmanship in an atmosphere of men." At Columbia, he said, crew should be a refuge for "white-hat" fugitives from the creeping culture of "cruddy weirdo slobs...