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Died. Albert Woolson, 109, last surviving Union veteran of the Civil War,* at 17 enlisted (October 1864) as a drummer in the 1st Minnesota Heavy Artillery Regiment, traveled with Union occupation forces through Tennessee but saw no action; of lung congestion; in Duluth. Chipper, cigar-smoking Woolson was senior vice commander of the once influential (peak membership in 1890: 408,489) Grand Army of the Republic, which held its last encampment...
...from 1.5? to 2.5? per mile cheaper than competitors' buses. The economics of the motor-coach industry are such that a fraction of a cent operating cost per mile can spell the difference between success and failure of the operator. It would appear that the action seeks to regiment the customer-in effect telling him that he is not free to buy the product where he can get it to his best advantage...
...Eisenhower: The Inside Story (Harper; $4-95).- On Dec. 6, 1648, when the House of Commons was to vote on bringing Charles I to trial, Colonel Thomas Pride, a Roundhead officer, posted his regiment outside Commons. Using a previously prepared purge list, Pride excluded M.P.s who were expected to vote with the King. Asked his authority, he pointed to his men with their muskets...
...Plata, the meat-packing city just downriver from the capital, the plotters successfully subverted the 7th Infantry Regiment. But soldiers and marines held the rebels at bay in the barracks until after dawn. Then the admiral sent jet planes to bomb and strafe the barracks, and the insurgents surrendered. Deeper in the pampas, plotters captured government buildings and a radio station at the cattle capital of Santa Rosa. Over the radio, for three hours, they demanded "freedom for all political prisoners, elections in six months, the cancellation of the Prebisch [economic recovery] Plan, lower living costs." As Rojas' 13th...
...Jordan with a $25 million-a-year British subsidy, more than half the country's total revenue. (The British, realizing that subsidy is an ugly word for a proud young nation, would probably agree to pay the same amount for the right to maintain bases and a tank regiment in strategic Aqaba...