Since the days of ancient Athens, a brave act has deserved a proud and artistic medaleverywhere but in the U.S. Last week when President Kennedy honored the country's first astronaut, all he had to pin on the lapel of Commander Alan Shepard was something that looked as if it might have come out of a Cracker Jack box. The Distinguished Service Medal of the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration is the most unimaginative decoration turned out by the U.S. Government so farand the competition for that title is stiff.
The Navy Medal of Honor is not only inelegant, it does not even...
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