Word: prizes
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...local district attorney has created a special unit to prosecute police misconduct, the police department has strengthened a civilian complaint procedure, the state legislature and the U.S. Civil Rights Commission have announced hearings on the Philadelphia police. Last week Neumann and Marimow won this year's Pulitzer Prize gold medal for public service, the most prestigious of the 20 awards...
...first time since Publisher Joseph Pulitzer endowed the awards in 1917, three were given to staffers of a single newspaper, the New York Times. Correspondent Henry Kamm, 52, won the international reporting prize for articles on the plight of Vietnamese refugees. Columnist William Safire, 48, and a bestselling novelist (Full Disclosure), was cited for his pieces on Bert Lance's financial dealings. Walter Kerr, 64, was singled out for his urbane theater criticism...
...experts, including a former FAA administrator, John H. Shaffer, agree. But after technical presentations and demonstrations of both devices in Montreal, the ICAO experts voted 39 to 24 in favor of the American system. The U.S. scanning beam has won a crucial round in the quest for a prize that eventually may be worth $4 billion in equipment sales around the world. Meanwhile the Montreal decision will have to be considered and approved by other ICAO panels...
...such roles as the Bluebird in Sleeping Beauty, a sailor in Fancy Free and the Nutcracker prince. A high point came last year when he played the old dollmaker in Coppélia. A curtain-time substitute, he gave a dark, almost mystical performance that New York balletomanes still prize...
Eric Miller '79, Janet Masur '78 and Cheryl Claassen, a third-year graduate student, who submitted the slogan jointly, will receive a $100 prize. The judges also awarded five runner-up prizes...