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...free. But the rest of the United States has managed to forget the years devoted to crushing the "Communist island within ninety miles of our territory." Neglect has proved to be a simpler policy than military invasion. Extremist groups may still throw a hand grenade down the gangplank of a Russian cruise ship or threaten the airlines of countries resuming diplomatic relations with Cuba, but the lurid billboard in San Juan that showed Cuban soldiers executing prisoners before a bloodsplashed wall disappeared years ago. Hardly anyone remembers its inscription...
...phenomenon called the gangplank complex explains why what was almost a capitalist fairy tale has had a predictable ending. This complex works strange effects on recent entrants to the ruling class. Once they make it on to the ship of state or of class, they try their hardest to pull in the gangplank to success along with them. As McDonald's reached Fortune 500 status in the late 60's, it turned its back on its entrepreneurial origins. Kroc had touted the franchising scheme, for instance, as a kind of popularization of big business, an opportunity to return...
Exiles never forget, of course, but the emigre communities in Miami, San Juan, and New Orleans have calmed down. Extremist groups may still throw a hand grenade down the gangplank of a Russian cruise ship or threaten the airlines of countries resuming diplomatic relations with Cuba, but the lurid billboard in San Juan that showed Cuban soldiers executing prisoners before a bloodsplashed wall disappeared years ago. Hardly anyone remembers its slogan...
...shows no sign of waning. Last week, only a month after the final visit of American astronauts to the moon, the Soviets successfully landed their second unmanned lunar rover in two years. Looking like an old-fashioned washtub sitting atop eight small wheels, Lunokhod (moonwalker) 2 rolled down the gangplank of its lander and parked itself in a mountainous region at the edge of the Sea of Serenity, only about 100 miles from Apollo 17's Taurus-Littrow base...
...went to hear the American Wind Symphony Orchestra per form on a barge anchored in the Ohio River off the sleepy Appalachian town of to W. Va. Accepting what he mistakenly perceived to be a tongue-in-cheek invitation from Symphony Director Robert Boudreau, Bender found himself walking the gangplank to the floating sym phony and conducting a rousing rendition of Stars and Stripes Forever...