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...108th Armored Cavalry Regiment, a unit of the Mississippi National Guard which was federalized by President Kennedy Saturday, was ordered to Oxford last night from its base in Tupele, Miss...
...painting divides into two epochs: before and after the Armory Show of 1913. That year, from the vaulted bastion of Manhattan's 69th Regiment, Marcel Duchamp's stroboscopic Nude Descending a Staircase strode jerkily into public awareness; Tin Pan Alley came up with That Futuristic Rag; and the nation was swept up in a fever of excitement over something called Modern Art. Of the many artists who rallied behind this great debut of modernism, one stands as the prime mover: Arthur Bowen Davies...
...Edward and Katharine, the Duke and Duchess of Kent, the titled but yet unchristened infant earl-tenth in line to the British throne-has an imperial adventure ahead. Along with his father, a captain in the Royal Scots Greys, he will soon move to Hong Kong as the transferred regiment's unofficial mascot...
...Russian words, Smert Shpionam (Death to Spies). It was formed just before World War II by the then NKVD. Its mission was the tracking down and punishment of foreign spies, and to detect any signs of dissent within the ranks of the Soviet armed forces. Every battalion, regiment and company of the Red army had a SMERSH agent attached to it, as did all active units of the navy and air force...
...self-reliant citizenship and in excessive power concentration." To back up his charge that Kennedy is asking for too many powers, Ike cited Kennedy's requests for authority to modify income taxes when he decides it is necessary, to finance emergency public works by diversion of funds, to "regiment all agriculture," to "take over a whole host of state and local responsibilities, notably including the proposal for a Department of Urban Affairs," and "to dilute the independence of the Federal Reserve Board by presidential appointment of its chairman." Added Ike: "The objectives under lying many such proposals...