Word: vetlesen
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Dates: during 1966-1966
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Midst laurels stood: Dutch Astronomer Jan Henrik Oort, 66, a pioneer in radio astronomy, honored with Columbia University's $25,000 Vetlesen Prize; Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare John W." Gardner, 54, Photographer Edward Steichen, 87, and Dr. W. A. Visser 't Hooft, general secretary of the World Council of Churches, all named for Family of Man awards for their contributions to humanity; Israel's patriarchal Man of Letters Shmuel Yosef Agnon, 78, and German-born Jewish Poetess Nelly Sachs, 74, a fragile lyricist who fled Hitler's Germany in 1940 to live in Sweden...
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