The march of time is a funny thing, traversing, as it does, historical circumstances in a sometimes contradictory yet often well-worn manner. Take one of the items up for argument before the Supreme Court next week: New York v. New Jersey, a case that will decide the fate of the Waterfront Commission, an agency founded in 1953 for the purpose of (to employ terminology used at the time) “eliminating various evils on the waterfront in the Port of New York Harbor.”