Word: malle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...March 1, Harry Truman sent for Forrestal and asked for his immediate resignation. This, say his friends, was a "shattering experience," the final proof to his exhausted mind that he was a failure. He submitted his resignation gracefully and made his appropriate farewells. Then he walked to the Mall entrance of the Pentagon to wait for his car. "Oh, you don't have a car any more," an aide reminded him. Forrestal looked perplexed. The aide called another car and sent him home, then called Forrestal's old friend Ferdinand Eberstadt, and warned him that Forrestal was "acting...
Klaatu comes from an unnamed planet 250 million miles away and thousands of years more advanced than the earth. His 4,000-m.p.h. spaceship pancakes to a perfect landing near the Washington Mall, and he steps out with a friendly greeting into a hostile ring of troops, tanks and artillery. When a jittery G.I. puts a bullet into Klaatu, a huge robot lumbers out of the spaceship and emits a ray that melts the weapons in the soldiers' hands and the tanks right out from under them. The wounded Klaatu signals a halt to the demonstration, is whisked...
...CRIMSON editor travelling through Austria this summer, Mr. Edelman was obliged to mall this dispatch from Salzburg, since, in four-power occupied Vienna, as he points out, "censors strike out all anti-Soviet remarks in letters...
...agents will mall personal letters to the seniors beginning next Wednesday. Last year 283 of the 1,646 seniors gave a total of $1,165 to the Fund Council...
Today, at 41, Kallio is one of America's top portrait sculptors. He first gained fame in Washington with a posthumous portrait of James Forrestal, which now stands in the Mall entrance to the Pentagon. Kallio read everything he could find about Forrestal, decided he resembled "a character in the Kalevala [Finland's national epic] who worked hard all his life, was good, and finally stabbed himself...