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...Died. Wellington Rankin, 81, Montana lawyer-rancher and younger brother of Jeanette Rankin, first U.S. Congresswoman (1917-19), who amassed one of the nation's biggest landholdings (900,000 acres of ranchland); following abdominal surgery; at the Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minn...
Only eight times in its 181-year history did the Times of London deign to put news on Page One. Nelson's triumph at Trafalgar made it, though not Wellington's victory at Waterloo. The British general strike of 1926 got front-page treatment; not the outbreak of World War II. Winston Churchill never made the first page while he was alive; only his death put him there. Aside from those few departures from tradition, Page One has been devoted to notices and classified advertisements: secretaries looking for work, wives imploring their husbands to return, Tibetan refugees seeking...
...father, Wellington Wales, a member of the editorial board of the New York Times, died of a heart attack yesterday, apparently because of the news of his son's death...
Every war breeds its balladeers, and Viet Nam is no exception. Xenophon's Greek mercenaries marched "up country" into the Persian empire 2,300 years ago to the rhythm of harshly sung battle hymns; Wellington's light infantry quick-stepped through the Iberian peninsula to the bugles of Over the Hills and Far Away. Pershing's doughboys remarked the lack of lingerie in Armentieres, while Rommel's Afrika
Thomas Coates, chairman of the Council's special committee on the Inner Belt, set a public hearing at 7 p.m. in the Wellington School in East Cambridge...