He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1968.

His command positions included: commanding officer of a platoon and two rifle companies during two tours of duty in Vietnam ; commanding officer of Special Training Branch and Recruit Series at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, California ( 1966 – 1968 ); commanding officer of Counter-Guerilla Warfare School, Northern Training Area on Okinawa ( 1970 ), Company officer at the United States Naval Academy ( 1970 – 1973 ); commanding officer of the Marine Barracks at Naval Air Station North Island, California ( 1973 – 1976 ), and commanding officer, 3rd Battalion 3rd Marines ( 1983 – 1985 ).

When the art academy in Amsterdam became part of the higher professional education system in 1968 and was given the status of an Academy for Fine Arts and Design, the name was changed to the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in honour of Rietveld.

He received grants from the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1967 and the Ford Foundation in 1968. in 1970, he received the American Academy of Arts and Letters award for literature.

* National Academy of Sciences — John J. Carty Award, 1968

Training camps were previously held at Chestnut Hill Academy in 1935, St. Joseph's University in 1939 and 1943, Saranac Lake from 1946 – 1948, Hershey from 1951 – 1967, Albright College from 1968 – 1972, Widener University from 1973 – 1979, and West Chester University from 1980 – 1995.

* King Philip also appears in James Goldman's 1966 Broadway Production of The Lion in Winter and was portrayed by Christopher Walken, as well as the 1968 Academy Award winning film of the same name, with Timothy Dalton playing the role.

Gilbert has also been honored by the National Academy of Sciences ( US Steel Foundation Award, 1968 ); Massachusetts General Hospital ( Warren Triennial Prize, 1977 ); the New York Academy of Sciences ; ( Louis and Bert Freedman Foundation Award, 1977 ), the Academie des Sciences of France ( Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer Award, 1977 ).

He is principally known for his 1968 version of Romeo and Juliet, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award, although his 1967 version of The Taming of the Shrew ( with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton ) remains the best-known film adaptation of that play as well.

* Romeo and Juliet ( 1968 ) Academy Award nominee, director

In 1952 he became a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, of which he was the vice-president from 1957 to 1968.

Hawn had made her feature film debut in a bit role as a giggling dancer in the 1968 film The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band, in which she was billed as " Goldie Jeanne ", but in her first major film role, in Cactus Flower ( 1969 ), she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress as Walter Matthau's suicidal fiancée.

It was adapted by Goldman into an Academy Award-winning 1968 film of the same name, starring Peter O ' Toole and Katharine Hepburn.

Caine was averaging two films a year, but these included such failures as the BAFTA Award-nominated The Magus ( 1968 ), the Academy Award-nominated The Swarm ( 1978 ), Ashanti ( 1979 ) ( which he claimed were the worst three films of all the other worst films he ever made ), Beyond the Poseidon Adventure ( 1979 ), The Island ( 1980 ), The Hand ( 1981 ) and a reunion with his Sleuth co-star Laurence Olivier in The Jigsaw Man ( 1982 ).

This category is notable for giving Walt Disney 12 of his 22 Academy Awards, including a posthumous 1968 award, and also 10 of the first 12 awards awarded in the category.

In 1968, The Producers won the Academy Award for Best Writing, Story and Screenplay — Written Directly for the Screen, and Gene Wilder was nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.

The 1968 motion picture won six Academy Awards including Best Picture, and received nominations for both Moody and Wild.

Appleton Academy closed in 1968.

In athletics, Mahopac boasts strong legacies in wrestling ( John Degl 1991 NYS Champion & Joe Mazzurco 2000 NYS Champion & Anthony Esposito 2011 State Championship Wrestling Coach ) basketball, softball, volleyball, gymnastics, field hockey, baseball ( Dave Fleming 1987 MHS Graduate & former pitcher for the Seattle Mariners ), football ( the Russo Brothers ) track & field ( Nick Lakis 1968 MHS graduate and former mile record holder at U. S. Naval Academy ), and lacrosse.

) Columbus Academy grew, and relocated to Gahanna ( northeast of Columbus ) in 1968.

He is best known for his often haunting film music and scores, such as The Umbrellas of Cherbourg ( 1964 ) and The Thomas Crown Affair ( 1968 ) featuring the song " The Windmills of Your Mind " for which he won his first Academy Award.

From 1967 to 1968 he attended to the higher courses of general staff at the Defense Academy of Tirana.

He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1947, serving as its chairman from 1968 to 1971.

Steps ( 1968 ), a novel comprising scores of loosely connected vignettes, won the U. S. National Book Award for Fiction.

He also won the 1968 National League Gold Glove Award for catchers, marking the first time the award had been won by a rookie.

* The 1968 Bollywood film Sangharsh, based on a story by Jnanpith Award winner, Mahasweta Devi, presented a fictionalised account of vendetta within a Thuggee cult in the holy Indian town of Varanasi.

* A Wizard of Earthsea, 1968 ( Lewis Carroll Shelf Award winner, 1979 )

The Theodore M. Matson Memorial Award was bestowed on him in 1968.

In 1968 he won the National Book Award for his novel The Eighth Day.

* The Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding ( 1968 ).

* 1968: Nominated for an Emmy Award for Musical Variety Program for The Fred Astaire Show

* 1968: BAFTA Film Award for Best Actor ( Spencer Tracy )

* 1968: BAFTA Film Award for Best Actress ( Katharine Hepburn )

In 1968 he received the Academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.

* 1968 Evening Standard Award, Special Award: Forty Years On

* 1968 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for Portrait of a Queen-nominated

He recorded four albums in his resonant bass speaking voice, one of which, Gallant Men, unexpectedly made it to # 16 on the U. S. Billboard charts and won a Grammy Award for Best Documentary Recording in 1968.

Laugh-In Editor Arthur Schneider won an Emmy Award in 1968 for his pioneering use of the " jump cut " – the unique editing style in which a sudden cut from one shot to another was made without a fade-out.

* 1968: Nomination for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner ( posthumous nomination )

* 1968 BAFTA Award Nomination for Best Film ( Claude Lelouch )

* Promises, Promises ( 1968 ) – musical – lyricist – Tony Nomination for Best Musical

* 1968 BAFTA Film Award Nomination for Best British Screenplay ( Frederic Raphael )

* 1968 Directors Guild of America Award Nomination for Outstanding Directorial Achievement ( Stanley Donen )

* 1968 Golden Globe Award Nomination for Best Motion Picture Actress ( Audrey Hepburn )

* 1968 Golden Globe Award Nomination for Best Original Score ( Henry Mancini )