Word: talled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Happy to Try. Tall, hollow-eyed Rudolf Hess has been a prisoner ever since the night of May 10, 1941, when he shocked the world by parachuting from a Messerschmitt fighter onto the Duke of Hamilton's estate in Scotland. His mission, he claimed, was to end the war between "the great Nordic nations" Britain and Germany. Hess did not have the approval of Hitler for his peacemaking mission, and indeed was quickly denounced by the Führer as "crazy." Hess remains convinced of the sacredness of his mission. "True, I achieved nothing," he wrote. "I could...
...they rise! London, 620 ft. Stuttgart, 702 ft. Dortmund, 715 ft. So much for Rotterdam's 365-ft.-tall Euro-mast...
...office or his home. Besides, when it is completed a year from now, it will be, at 892 ft., the tallest tower in Germany. That is, until Munich's 951-ft. tower is finished a few months later. But then. East Berlin will have one 1,185 ft. tall by 1969. West Berlin may counter with a 1,312-footer...
What makes her success even more remarkable is that Margaret Sanger was no tough-talking, mannish feminist. Even when she wore severely tailored suits to appear more formidable, she could not conceal her obvious femininity. She was a radiant, vivacious redhead, scarcely 5 ft. tall, who left scores of suitors in her wake...
Oscar-winning Cat Ballou, she was outclassed by everything onscreen, including Lee Marvin's horse. In any case, there were others who helped along the way. An old family friend, Joshua Logan, directed her in starring roles in both her first film (Tall Story) and first play (There Was a Little Girl), and Daddy, "nonverbal" as she thinks he is, could not have been a total liability...