Word: malling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WASHINGTON is basically an imperial seat plus slums plus liquor stores. The celebrated Mall stretches about a mile from the Capitol to the Lincoln Memorial on the shores of the Potomac. On either side of it loom numberless federal buildings. Except for the Pentagon, it's all right there. Most of the buildings are the familiar second-rate parodies of the Panthcon and, as Greenough pointed out over a hundred years ago, there is nothing sillier than America trying to be Corinthian. Perhaps every President for the last hundred years, tired and frustrated at the end of his term, wanted...
...Mobe marshals briefly ringed the base of the Justice Department building holding their fingers in the V-shape to try to stop the barrage. Police moved in from the east and fired two successive rounds of tear gas which drove about a quarter of the crowd back into the Mall to the south...
...course nobody needs the New Mobe office to tell them to be in the Capitol Mall tomorrow morning...
...march will begin at 1 a.m. on the Capitol Mall and bypass the White House on the way to a large rally later in the afternoon near the Washington Monument...
...whole spirit of the confrontation changed when some 500 demonstrators broke through the line of MP's from the North and raced toward the Mall entrance. While only two or three of the demonstrators actually made it to the door, hundreds of them sat down near the entrance. A number of them were lugged off to paddy wagons. Those who remained, still hemmed in by the MP's, began to settle down for the night. By then, many of the reporters decided that the action was over and that they had worked a full day. But in truth the violence...