Word: medals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...authority hamper civilian control and prevent efficient operation. "It's just an amorphous lump with nobody in charge of anything," said Fitzhugh at a news conference. "There is nobody you can point your finger at if anything goes wrong, and there is nobody you can pin a medal on if it goes right, because everything is everybody's business. What is everybody's business is nobody's business...
...Nationalist Chinese team for the Asian Games. Through Reel's intercession, the Taiwanese government agreed to send Chi to the U.S. to train in 1963. Five years later, she finished third in the 80-meter hurdles in Mexico City, thus becoming the only Asian woman to win a medal in an Olympic track event that year. "They had a parade for me in Taiwan every day for over a month," she says. "It was so wonderful. I didn't even mind the firecrackers...
...Kaplan '45, biographer of Mark Twain, winner of the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for biography: Leroy S. Rouner '53, author. teacher, and scholar in the Philosophy of Religion: Eugene G. h Rocow, professor of Chemistry, retiring this year: and Ernst Mayr, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, winner of the National Medal for Science this year...
MANHATTAN COLLEGE Evelina Antonetty, L.H.D., executive director of United Bronx Parents. Andrew W. Cordier, LL.D., president of Columbia University. The Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, Saint de la Salle Medal, president of the University of Notre Dame...
...genuine long-distance swimmers, the tank suit to put a lid on it is White Stag's Speedo. The all-nylon suit, worn by all but one of the 1968 Olympic Gold Medal winners, can even be had with a racing stripe down the side. Speedo wearers do not even have to make the crawl from Dover to Calais: the suit looks authentic enough to get there...