Tribute: John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s family will celebrate...

Tribute: John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s family will celebrate the 73rd anniversary of his birth today with the unveiling of an 8-foot bronze of the former President. In Boston Common, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg and John F. Kennedy Jr. are to unveil the sculpture by Isabel McIlvain. “The Kennedy family tries to do things on May 29, to get people away from Nov. 22,” the day of Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas, said Dave Powers, curator at the Kennedy Library in Boston.

Moving On: Former Haiti dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier has moved out of the luxury villa on the Cote d’Azur that has been his exile home for four years. His more spacious digs in Vallauris have tennis courts and a swimming pool. He and his family fled unrest in Haiti in 1986. While Duvalier is settling in, his immigrant status in France is still unclear.

Long Wait for a One-Liner: Novelist Kurt Vonnegut Jr. said that while Boston and Philadelphia both claim to be the “birthplace of liberty,” freedom was “only conceived there, so Boston and Philadelphia were only motels of liberty.” In South Kingstown, R.I., Sunday, he said: “The gestation period of American liberty has taken 200 years.” His comments reflect the humor he is famous for in “Breakfast of Champions” and “Slaughterhouse Five.”

In Shape: Ronald Reagan, Conway Twitty and Tom Brokaw share a space in Robert Gill’s hands. Gill, 64, of Huntington, W.Va., carves black walnut into busts of celebrities he admires. Reagan has asked that his own bust be housed in his library in California. “I didn’t put all Reagan’s wrinkles in,” Gill said.