Word: ribboning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then stalwart Pete Adams topped off a fine afternoon by anchoring Bill Shrout, Dick Saxe and captain Jim Seubold to an easy win in the final freestyle relay. Adams had one of his best days -- he preceded the relay blue ribbon with victories in the 100 and 200-yard freestyles...
Kerr himself did not lack for new things to do. Last week he was named by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching-to head a blue-ribbon study of higher education in the U.S., with the option of making it either a part-time or full-time job. As Kerr's interim successor, one of his longtime aides, Senior Vice President Harry Wellman, 66, stepped determinedly into the job of acting president. A member of the Cal faculty since 1925, Wellman holds a Berkeley Ph.D. in agricultural economics, is considered by the faculty a strong defender...
Though Americans delight in newness, their interest in antiques continues to grow. One indication is that attendance at Manhattan's blue-ribbon, ten-day 1967 Winter Antiques Show, which opened last week, has doubled in the past decade and is expected to reach 30,000 this year. Another sign is inflation; prices in the past year have commonly risen 5% even greater if more people felt confident that they could distinguish fine pieces from fakes. Unfortunately, the amateur shopping at a seaside "gifte shoppe" is all too likely to wind up paying $50 for a $10 copy...
...National Advisory Commission on Selective Service is a blue-ribbon committee in the hoary tradition of blue-ribbon committees. What its 22 members say about the draft when they report to the President January 1, will represent the thinking of responsible adults everywhere. And because the Commission has been most attentive to Johnson's pronouncements and most careful to tune their logic to his, what they say will be listened...
Attached to the Commerce Department until 1961, the blue-ribbon Business Council of some 100 corporate chiefs is now an independent but highly influential group: it provides guidance on Government programs, recruits businessmen to fill Administration jobs, and serves as a sounding board for Administration policies. Beyond the status it gives them in Washington, members value the Council as a forum for top-level cross-pollination of ideas and attitudes...