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...permanent Pentagon command, are abolished outright 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...
Virginia easily approved a scheme to allow two-fifths of the general assembly to make temporary laws if nuclear attack wiped out a majority of legislators. But Rhode Island passed a measure that sets up an emergency chain of command in case such disaster obliterates top officials. The surprising opposition to this praiseworthy plan caused Major General John M. McGreevy. state civil defense director, to shrug: "I don't think the voters knew what was involved here...
Harvard's Fogg Museum, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, and the Los Angeles County Museum have acquired Cezannes. The Philadelphia Museum of Art put up $28,000 for Walt Kuhn's Athlete in White Face. The Rhode Island School of Design got a 15th century panel, originally made for an altar...
...real lesson lay in the fact that New England was ready for some fresh young political faces-and Democrats offered more of them than Republicans. That lesson was underlined in the case of one Republican who showed great strength, if in a losing cause. In normally Democratic Rhode Island, State Representative John H. Chafee, 40, a Marine captain who fought both in World War II and in Korea, was the image of crew-cut integrity as he shook hands 16 hours a day and campaigned on the slogan: "A man you can trust." His appeal worked so well that...
...Rhode Island lays claim to the closest race in the country, where incumbent Gov. John A. Notte, Jr. leads Republican John H. Chafee by a miniscule 46 votes. A State police guard was hurriedly thrown around the absentee, shut-in, and servicemen's ballots which will not be counted until after a Nov. 21 filing deadline...