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Maybe it is time for us New Englanders to unite again and break away from Jerry Ford and his United States. What a way to celebrate our 200th birthday...
Centennial is intended as Michener's 200th-birthday present to the U.S. His setting is a small, fictional town, first called Zendt's Farm, then Centennial, on the eastern slope of the Rockies along the South Platte River in Colorado. His aim is to use the territory around the South Platte as a means of describing nothing less than the evolution of the American West. When he has disposed of prehistory, Michener introduces his first human character, an Arapaho warrior named Lame Beaver, born in 1747. By the time the book arrives at 1972-with doleful references...
...society, it is heartening to realize that we obviously have considerably more than just a passing acquaintance with morality. We're hearing a lot about the wisdom of our founding fathers. It would appear that we have almost come full circle. Rather fitting on the eve of our 200th anniversary...
...200th birthday of the United States is still two years away, but already television networks are starting to celebrate. Among the shows planned for the fall are NBC's series based on Carl Sandburg's biography of Lincoln, and another by the Public Broadcasting System on the Adams family from 1750 to 1900. CBS, however, has decided to go to extremes with the longest-running, shortest commemorative of them all. Beginning on July 4, it will offer a prime-time TV series called Bicentennial Minutes, which will run every night of every week until B-day, July...
...home Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League (EIBL) contest, and was rocked by the Cadets in the third for four runs. The Crimson went down to a 4-3 defeat, and the Black Knights of the Hudson, as they are less commonly but more correctly known, handed coach Eric Tipton his 200th career coaching victory...