WI water, soda, tonic, or nothing at all. How you drink Hennessy depends on what you like Tradition is in the making Taste is in the drinking. Hennessy The world's most civilized spirit. Pour it yourwa 98 t -J <; ! et' a.\ ) ') ""II . ,,- f \., " :$ ð .) it " "-...... , . " " "It/( .ã::: \ ' t ., \-. J t ./ '"'""" ennessy " '$ ," ""-,. 4. -;;, 1itNNO s . :oil< . "1"* ""^ . <^" "", J ,,;; " " HENNESSY COGNAC,BO PROOF,IMPORTED BY SCHIEFFELIN &CCi .NY Washington's crossing the Delaware. Said Governor Byrne, "Certain]y the paperwork was done in Philadelphia on the Fourth of July, but the war had to be fought and won in Ne Jersey:' The fact that New Yorkers are out of it may be just as well. In no future production could they hope to match the local triumph of J ul} 4, 1 976, last year's great morale booster, when two million people-almost as many as had lived in all thirteen colonies two hun- dred years earlier-crowded into Man- hattan south of City lIall, the area the British once occupied, to watch the Tall Ships and otherwise celebrate the nation's two-hundredth birthday. "New York's Bicentennial was, by com- mon consent, the country's finest" was the verdict of Mary McGrory, who in April had described the city as "sick. . . and sickening." Her explanation for the relnarkably fast convalescence was "Ad versit) has done wonders for New York." N ewsda y, whose territory is Nassau and Suffolk Counties, com- mented, ((The Revolution was launched in Boston. Independence was declared in Philadelphia. Washington has been the capital since 1791. But where is the B ice n ten n i al really happening? In New York City, of all places. Crime-ridden, poverty-stricken, politics- plagued N ew York has made itself headquarters for the Fourth of July, 1976." Still the local Bicentennial celebra- , tions may not necessanly be over. New Yorkers have been known to rise above inconvenient historical fact. Last May, for example, the Battle of Queens was reënacted in F'lushing Meadow-Corona Park, although the participants agreed that no Revolutionary battle took place in that borough. There was no dress re- hearsal. ('The battles of the Revolution did not have dress rehearsals, so why should we?" asked a history buff act- ing as expert adyjser for the event. The pagean t could, of course, serve as a dress rehearsal for a glorious victory in the second Battle of Queens against the British, this time accompanied by the F rench-the victory in the battle over the Concorde, when or if it comes -ANDY LOGAN . CORRECTION We vvould like to apologize to M rs I--tois McMurray for the description on her as, "the bane of the Clinton High library's existence," in yesterday's ITEM. llhe sentence should have read backbone of the Clinton High library -Clinton (Mass.) Daily Item Carryon, Mrs. McMurray. It s an imperfect world.