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"American Landscapes," an exhibition of photographs at the Musemum of Modern Art in New York City, was mounted as a summer show, meaning a small one; and its contents-55 images of American nature, ranging in time from the 1860s to the 1970s, and in place from the redwood forests...
In the years after the Civil War, photographers went with the surveying parties and railroad gangs as they painfully worked their way across the continent. Lugging their clumsy box cameras and big fragile glass plates up mountains and down canyons, they brought back what painters could not give, or not...
*The last presidential vacation of such duration was Richard Nixon's 31-day stay at San Clemente in 1969. But Nixon, unlike Reagan, took along most of his staff, wore a coat and tie constantly, designated his home the Western White House and clearly ran the Government from there...
The immediate trigger for European anxieties about NATO is the TNF question-Theater Nuclear Forces. In December 1979, NATO members agreed to the deployment on the Continent of 572 U.S. Pershing II missiles and ground-launched cruise missiles, GLCMS or Glickums. These would be capable of reaching all of Eastern...
As for Europe, there might be more revolutions, more bloodshed, but most of the Continent, he promised John Adams, would wind up as American-style democracies, upon whose "glorious achieve ments" the two old Presidents would look down from heaven.