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...because they are either undermanned, undertrained or outmoded. McNamara is seeking the required approval of Governors involved to downgrade, for similar reasons, four National Guard infantry divisions-the 34th of Iowa and Nebraska, the 35th of Kansas and Missouri, the 43rd of Connecticut, Rhode Island and Vermont, and the 51st of Florida and South Carolina. Those outfits (authorized division strength: 13,500) would be regrouped into 3,300-man brigades. Further, 1,800 smaller Guard and reserve units would be disbanded because they are dead weight-among them, crews of vintage 90-mm. antiaircraft guns, now useless against jets...
American Dream. In the promotion of top American art Alfred Stieglitz was the great pioneer, five decades ago. If Stieglitz has an heir it is Edith Gregor Halpert, whose Downtown Gallery (originally downtown but now located on East 51st Street) opened in 1926 with three artists that Stieglitz had turned over to her: John Marin, Charles Demuth, and Stieglitz' wife, Georgia O'Keeffe. In addition to the works of these three, Dealer Halpert also sells the paintings of the late Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Arthur Dove and Max Weber. Other artists on this formidable roster: Ben Shahn, Abraham Rattner, Charles...
Alexander I, Czar of Russia, issued a ukase claiming the entire Pacific Coast of North America and the surrounding seas down to the 51st parallel (the northern tip of Vancouver Island). Monroe directed his Secretary of State-a prickly genius named John Quincy Adams-to draft a protest. Foreshadowing a major segment of the Monroe Doctrine, Adams informed the Russian minister in Washington "that we should contest the right of Russia to any territorial establishment on this continent, and that we should assume distinctly the principle that the American continents are no longer subjects for any new European colonial establishments...
...inhabitants, which will probably be held late this year or early next, to determine whether Puerto Rico should 1) continue as a Commonwealth, "perfecting" its loose tie with the U.S. and making it "a permanent institution"; 2) petition the U.S. Congress for admission to the Union as the 51st state; or 3) ask the U.S. for complete independence...
...97th running of the Harvard-Yale Regatta on Saturday, June 16, the Crimson heavyweights will be going for their fourth victory in a row and a possible 51st win over the Elis...