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...huddled yearning masses at the Baja California border and Ellis Island, beyond the passage in steerage of victims of the potato famine and the high-minded Teutonic settlements in the nascent Midwest. Just months after the Revolution was won, in 1782, French-American Writer Michel-Guillaume-Jean de Crèvecoeur said of his adopted land: "Individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men." Americans embittered by the wars of Europe knew that fusing diversity into unity was more than a poetic ideal, it was a practical necessity. In 1820 future Congressman Edward Everett warned, "From...
Jeantot, in his black-and-yellow aluminum-hulled cutter prosaically named Crédit Agricole for the bank that sponsored it, beat by an astonishing 28½ days the previous record for a single-hulled boat, set last year by Australian Neville Gosson. This time Gosson was expected to finish fourth among the larger boats. Jeantot's eleven-ton 56-footer even shaved ten days off the previous single-handed circumnavigation record, set in a trimaran by fellow Frenchman Alain Colas in 1973-74. Jeantot's large monohull also set new race records for the fastest noon...
Crusade Against Crèches
Must the public exhibit of the Christmas crèche be interpreted as an attempt by the Government to establish religion [Dec. 20]? If civil libertarians succeed in stripping all public displays of their religious connotation, they will have trivialized a once richly symbolic feast...
...Christmas lawsuits. If government funds were used to erect Menorahs, most American Christians would probably see that as an unconstitutional use of government funds to promote Judaism. The traditional role that Christmas has played in American life has made the point harder to see in the case of crès, but no less valid...