The Post wrote that "all indications are that Cuba will celebrate its greatest fiesta in years" on the day of Coolidge's arrival.
While Robert Lowell's July in Washington is not overtly concerned with the Fourth, there is little doubt that his stinging attack on his country's political "elect", with their soon-lost youthful idealism and disdain for democracy, "like South American liberators", was intended as ironic commentary on the great national fiesta of freedom.
Venice, Sundance, Cannes; to the list of the world's great movie fiestas we can now add another, after it was announced earlier this month that the first ever moustache film festival was set to twirl its way onto the cinema circuit.
He conquered Epsom's undulations and cambers for the first time three years later on Never Say Die and farmed the great mile-and-a-half fiesta, winning also on Crepello, St Paddy, Sir Ivor, Nijinsky, Roberto, Empery, The Minstrel and Teenoso, the last of his successful Derby mounts, in 1983.
"I thought I looked great in my huaraches and striped, fiesta-themed peasant pants," Mary says.
Similar versions of the 4-D coasters have been built at Six Flags Fiesta Texas and Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey.
But if Oklahoma wins the Big 12 championship and goes to the Orange Bowl, Fiesta organizers essentially get to make a great game.
Ford gave us an opportunity to take its 2014 Fiesta for a spin Tuesday morning; great timing, considering it would have been Henry Ford's 150th birthday.
FIESTA BOWL Oklahoma (BIG 12) B.Y.U.
