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...Guardsmen stalked abreast down the street while police and deputy sheriffs followed them, arresting anyone on the street. Guardsmen killed a second Negro whom they found looting a store. Another of the Negro victims killed had incredibly taken up a post on a rooftop overlooking Watts's 77th Street precinct station. As he directed sniper fire at police and soldiers below, a Guardsman wheeled, drilled him cleanly through the head with a rifle bullet. But the war-weary police were still doing most of the yeomen work. They shot four looters dead in stores they were sacking, fought...
McNamara's decision meant the striking of the colors of many of the most famous and decorated divisions in the National Guard and Army Reserve, probably including the 32nd "Red Arrow" (TIME, Oct. 13, 1961), the 77th "Statue of Liberty," the 83rd "Thunderbolt" and the 90th "Tough 'Ombres." McNamara put a stop to an old Army practice of awarding Reserve commissions to newly elected members of Congress. Said he: "We shall not tolerate traffic in commissions." More than anything, the decisions signaled a definite increase in the power of the Department of Defense, moving the U.S. military establishment...
ANDY WARHOL-Castelli, 4 East 77th...
...BURY - Lefebre, 47 East 77th. Bury is a Paris-based Belgian who seems to be catching on everywhere. He was a hit in Venice, and U.S. museums were snatching up his work before this first New York show even opened. It consists of electrically animated nails, sticks, balls and tiny nylon wires that twist, tangle and topple, clutch and clash, then move smoothly together again, always with a sly, sensuous suggestion of human activity. Through...
MARINA NUÑEZ DEL PRADO and SIDNEY WOLFSON - World House, 987 Madison Ave. at 77th. New works by Miss Del Prado, a Bolivian sculptress who exploits the grain of exotic woods, smooths onyx and marble into virginal shapes that often echo the human form; and 40 paintings by New Yorker Wolfson, whose subtle shades sing in soft harmony. Through...