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...Binge. Highlight of its latest issue is Civil War Correspondent (Chicago Times) Sylvanus Cadwallader's hitherto unpublished account of a two-day binge of General Grant. During the siege of Vicksburg, Cadwallader encountered Grant staggering through the barroom of a Mississippi steamboat. Wrote Cadwallader: "I . . . enticed him into his stateroom, locked myself in the room with him . . . and commenced throwing bottles of whisky . . . into the river. Grant soon ordered me out of the room, but I refused to go . . . I said to him that I was the best friend he had in the Army of the Tennessee . . ." Grant continued...
...well equipped to supply most of the arms. But to make effective use of Czech weapons, the Egyptian army will be obliged to set up a maintenance supply line running back to Prague, and, therefore, to Moscow. Thus Russia can secure a linn and influential hold on an area hitherto dominated by the West...
...Author John (A Bell for Adano) Hersey, who has made the study of educational needs his avocation (he has four school-age children). The committee will try to focus attention on the whole Connecticut problem, set up workshops for teachers, introduce ideas that have worked well elsewhere, survey hitherto neglected rural areas...
...recent local elections, the Moslem League Party, founders of Pakistan and hitherto its absolute rulers, found itself overwhelmingly repudiated by the voters. It was faced with two alternatives: to seize power through the army, after the classical pattern of one-party dictatorship, or to rule by the traditional democratic process of political horse-trading and parliamentary maneuver...
...Religious preferences of armed forces personnel will be spelled out on their dog tags in future instead of being designated by a single letter, the Department of Defense announced. Purpose of the new policy: to identify "more appropriately" those hitherto placed in category "P" (for all Protestant denominations) and "X" (for all faiths not Protestant, Jewish or Roman Catholic...