Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Guam. On Dec. 7, 1941 he was in Iceland. It was not until the Cape Gloucester operation in March 1944 that Smith, by then a greying colonel, got his first taste of combat and a Bronze Star. In his second operation, bloody Peleliu, he won the Legion of Merit for the smooth landing of three Marine assault teams. From Peleliu to Okinawa and from Inchon to Changjin reservoir, he won many honors (including the Distinguished Service Medal and the Army's Distinguished Service Cross) and advanced rapidly in the esteem of the corps...
...Hinterzarten, West Germany, the Olympic committees of East and West Germany lifted the Iron Curtain, agreed to field a combined team at Melbourne next year. Berths will be awarded solely "on merit...
...National Merit Scholarship Corp., a new, nonprofit organization set up in Illinois by a group of nationally prominent businessmen and educators, announced the establishment of the largest independent college scholarship program in history. Initial fund: $20.5 million contributed by the Ford Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation of New York...
Some $10 million of the fund will be used to finance four-year National Merit Scholarships, which will be awarded ($1,000,000 worth a year) on the basis of annual nationwide searches for bright students who cannot afford college. The nation's approximately 25,000 secondary schools are already being invited to nominate candidates for the first scholarships, to be awarded before...
...carries Paul Stapp. Among men who make a business of dealing with danger, he is a legend. Stapp has won a file full of awards and citations, including the Legion of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster and, last month, the Air Force's Cheney Award for valor and self-sacrifice. He has ridden his roaring rocket sleds 29 times, personal proof that man is still master of the machines he builds. That is almost a faith with Stapp. Says he: "Man is capable of self-reproduction and even of occasional genetic improvements. He is capable of self-repair...