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...Shannon, born in Hollis, N.Y., holds an A.B. from Holy Cross and M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from NYU. He was cited by President Bok: "Under his guiding hand, the arm of government has bent wisely and usefully to the service of medical science...
Other recipients were: novelist Saul Bellow, Canadian educator Northrup Frye, British diplomat Roy H. Jenkins, and educator James A. Shannon...
...final degree, the only Doctor of Science, was awarded to James Augustus Shannon, the educator and medical investigator who helped shape governmental policy toward medical research after World War II. Director of the National Institutes of Health from 1955 to 1968, he was associate director of the National Heart Institute from 1949 to 1952. In 1949, he received the Presidential Medal for Merit from President Truman...
...many camera stores in every big city, where the selection is much broader and prices almost the same. Sample prices at the airport: Nikkormat 35-mm. FTN with f-1.4 lens, $172. The same camera costs $268 at Amsterdam's Schiphol and $260 at Shannon, but it is still a bargain at either place compared with its $388 retail price...
Europe's most elaborate duty-free shops are at Shannon airport in Ireland and Amsterdam's Schiphol. Visitors to the ould sod-even those in transit-can browse through huge quantities of bulky hand-knit sweaters ($19.75 and up), Connemara blankets ($9.75), Royal Tara china and linen. The same merchandise is taxed up to 17% outside the duty-free area, but occasionally it can be found on sale for less than airport prices. Amsterdam's 25-store operation is a veritable shopping center, offering unset diamonds, a large selection of Dutch silverware, typewriters, electronic calculators and film...