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...Iacocca's pleading is not what caused me to make a contribution to the rebuilding of the Statue of Liberty. It was remembering that cold February day in 1923 when my steamboat entered New York Harbor and I bounded up on deck to get a good look at the old girl as she greeted...
...Allies had regained a great deal since the darkest days of 1941 and early 1942, when the Germans' panzer divisions swept to within 40 miles of Moscow and their Japanese allies struck at Pearl Harbor, the Philippines, Malaya. The hitherto invincible Japanese navy had been checked at the Battle of Midway in June 1942, the Soviets held fast at Stalingrad, and the Anglo-American invasion of North Africa that autumn inspired Churchill to say that although victory there might not be the beginning of the end, it was perhaps "the end of the beginning...
...That may take care of itself. The Democrats claim that Reagan, almost alone, is responsible for the current problem. Most Americans apparently disagree. A recent poll taken for the Committee on the Present Danger showed that two-thirds of the populace are disillusioned over the Soviets' actions and harbor a deep suspicion that they are once again on the prowl in the world...
...shelter workers are skeptical that their groups can fill the gap. Deborah Battista, who works at the Harbor Me shelter in East Boston, says that Massachusetts shelters, which last year temporarily housed 34,444 women and children, could never afford to foot the bill for t.r.o. applications. "Shelters exist on minimal state and private funding," she says...
...long as the city's neighborhoods remained as isolated as they now are Perhaps more than any other major city. Boston is a city atomized, split between the neighborhoods and downtown, and split along geographic, racial, and ethnic lines Working class Southie is isolated across the channel and the harbor from the city's skyscrapers. The subway system barely skirts its perimeters, and to reach Southie's center, one must walk for 10 minutes through barren streets, flanked by run-down housing units and abandoned warehouses West Roxbury and communities such as Mattapan and Hyde Park are self-contained mini...