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...Governors had been fretting about McNamara since last spring, when word got out that he considered the Guard oversized, undertrained and largely outmoded in the age of nuclear deterrence and guerrilla warfare. McNamara had his reasons. When two National Guard divisions were federalized during the Berlin buildup-the 49th Armored of Texas and the 32nd Infantry of Wisconsin-McNamara was shocked to find that these supposedly crack units needed nearly five months to reach combat status. He discovered that the Guard had 95 antiaircraft companies armed with old-line 90-mm. guns that were useless against supersonic jet aircraft...
This week the Pretender will get back to Estoril just in time to celebrate his 49th birthday. A few days later, there will come a flood of guests-friends, political supporters, monarchists of any ilk-for 31 the formal celebration of the feast day of his patron saint, San Juan Bautista. Every year the ritual is the same. As the visitors enter Villa Giralda's big, comfortable drawing room, they press toward Don Juan and his wife to bow or curtsy. They greet the man who may one day be their ruler...
From Seed to Shambles. Last October, when his Texas 49th Armored Division was called up, Owen was just two months past his discharge after two years of active Army duty, much of it spent in Germany. Sent to Fort Polk, Owen and his fellow reservists found it a dismal place...
...When the 49th arrived last fall, the base had just been reactivated after two years of falling from seed into a shambles. The barracks were decrepit. Stray cows and pigs roamed the premises. The food was like nothing mother ever cooked. At first, there were not enough blankets, boots or underwear to go around. Worst of all to the men of the 49th, after the Berlin crisis seemed to ease, there appeared little reason for their being in uniform. Major General Harley B. West, the division commander, recognized the problem. Said he: "Fort Polk, La., is a hell...
...duty the fact that Kennedy's plans to cut down on unemployment have failed?" and "Are you conscientiously representing the people who elected you to office, or are you merely appeasing all the 'too liberal' party majority in order to feather your own nest?" Finally, the 49th's General West had had enough. "Each meeting they had was a little bolder," he recalls. "I finally came to the conclusion that it was going beyond a free discussion. So I handed down an order banning any further meetings." Speaking of Rights. That order led to Owen...