Word: mortalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...friend and defender, Lieut. General Claire Chennault, the original Flying Tiger, dead since 1958. The likeness, catching the essence of Chennault's leathery, steel-spined courage, is in a children's playground and faces Chiang's official mansion. Cabled the President of the U.S.: "While his mortal remains lie among those of America's soldiers of all wars [in Arlington National Cemetery], his spirit is memorialized today in Free China...
...rich Texas Murchisons with mismanagement of Alleghany assets. Not only did the Kirby-engineered settlement force Mrs. Young to pay $1,050,000 to the Alleghany treasury (TIME, Jan. 4), but-far worse in her eyes-it gave victory and prestige to Randolph Phillips, whom she considers a mortal enemy...