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...century is nothing to sneeze at, but when one stops to consider that Harvard had already been around for 250 years when the statue was beginning to take shape in New York harbor, the enormity of our upcoming birthday starts to hit home. Apart from being a time for celebrations and congratulations, anniversaries are particularly well-suited for taking stock of strengths and weaknesses...
...York harbor was spackled with whitecaps and the wakes of some 20,000 boats of every conceivable shape and size. Their wild variety mirrored the diversity of the immigrants who passed through Ellis Island: Dutch flat- bottomed boats, Chinese junks, plush French yachts, Norwegian barkentines. Draped over one small vessel was a hand-lettered banner: OK U.K. 1776 IS FORGIVEN. COME HOME COLONIALS. TEA AND CRUMPETS AWAIT...
Standing watch over the elegant sailing ships were the massive, muscular vessels of war: destroyers, frigates, the battleship Iowa and the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy, from which the President and Mrs. Reagan surveyed the harbor and the Friday-night fireworks. These leviathans provoked a different reaction, a buoyant chauvinism. As a crowded Staten Island ferryboat passed by the Kennedy, one sightseer called out, to cheers and laughter, "Come on over, Gaddafi...
Much still divides Americans, but Liberty Weekend united nearly everyone in a celebration of the statue and ourselves. "This country needs these things every ten years or so," said one spectator. Despite the gimcrackery, this was a people's holiday; the fireworks high above the harbor were the dazzling signature of a democratic free-for-all, overwhelming the staginess that came before and afterward. The Fourth of July weekend revealed, once again, the American spirit of freedom--and the freedom to be in high spirits, as the album of enduring images on the following pages will testify...
Only Poland could harbor the contrasting scenes that took place within miles of each other last week. In the cavernous Congress Hall of Warsaw's Palace of Culture, 1,776 delegates attending Poland's Tenth Communist Party Congress sang the Communist International. Then, as Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev settled into his chair, Polish Leader Wojciech Jaruzelski launched into a 4 1/2-hour report declaring that after the "tough ordeal" of the past five years, Poland's Communists are successfully pursuing the "line of socialist renewal...