Word: prizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...press conference in New York, the 63-year-old professor accepted the $10.000 prize for achievements "in the prolonging or improving the quality of human life." in his speech. Wald proposed a package of issues "that the newly formed coalition of concerned Republicans and Democrats in Congress" should bring...
JUST what are the three books that the minister and his flock have found so satanic and obscene? The first one is Hermann Hesse's Demian, first published in 1919. Hesse happens to be one of the titans of modern literature, and his fiction earned him the Nobel Prize in 1946. Demian is the deeply probing tale of an adolescent's passage through various stages of spiritual turmoil to a final self-realization under the influence of a slightly older and rather mysterious friend and guide. There is an overlay of symbolism and surrealism, and a Jungian concern with...
This time around, Eugene McCarthy has won a national election. The three-member poetry prize committee of the National Endowment for the Arts has chosen his poem, Three Bad Signs, for a $500 award. Completed during the Indiana primary campaign last year, the poem appears to be a sly indictment of the typical small-town reaction to Clean Gene's crusaders...
...cushion of air. In the straightaways, Scotti's black-and-yellow striped boat blasted over the waves at more than 100 m.p.h. By the 3 p.m. gun, he had averaged an incredible 73 m.p.h. for 584 miles, more than enough to take the $15,000 first prize...
...races, last week's Outboard World Championship was the biggest, richest and roughest in history. The eight-hour marathon had 111 drivers fighting for $50,000 in prize money, much of it put up by Havasu's developer, Oilman Robert McCulloch. Between them, Outboard Marine and Kiekhaefer Mercury had no fewer than 40 boats in the field. By the end of the race, most of the craft were fit only for beach-party kindling. Within the first two hours, gusty 20-m.p.h. winds caused at least a dozen boats to flip into spray-spewing somersaults; others slammed sickeningly...