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...stage which evokes the loud patriotic decor of Brigham's. The blue and white Boston 200 logo wallpapered around portraits of famous women and a starkly geometric waging flag in red and white form the backdrop of the stage. The WBZ program will lecture such dicers acts as the Caravan Theater, mush by Jade and Sasparilla, and an interview with Ms. Dukakis The women's history exhibit suffers under the onslaught of cameramen, glaring TV lights and coached applause. On the first day of the exhibit, "high school women" discussed sex roles and modeled original clothes. For opening...
...certainly only the first of a series of flash visits that will commemorate the valiant efforts of the hard-working colonial farmers who left their small plots to fight for independence from the British. As April turns into May and June and the hot days of summer, the executive caravan will follow its pompish route through the cities and towns of the Eastern Seaboard, invoking the heroic patriotism and noble sacrifice of Bunker Hill. Dorchester Heights, Long Island and other sites where red-coats and colonists clashed...
Preserved by Ice. These included gold. The Scythians were rich. They wrung tribute from every caravan that crossed the steppes, and they carried their gold not as raw bullion but as flamboyant ornament. Other materials went to dust?except for some ornaments of wood or cloth, such as the elegant swan made of felt stuffed with reindeer hair (see color opposite) that was discovered, preserved by ice for almost 2½ millennia, in a tomb in the Altai Mountains of Siberia. Yet the gold survived. Almost all the major examples of Scythian gold have remained in the U.S.S.R...
...caravan will leave Cambridge Common at 10 p.m. tonight for the People's Bicentennial Commission's demonstration at the Concord Bridge. The program from midnight to morning will include appearances by Ario Guthric. Pete Seeger '40, Dr. Barry Commoner, and George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology...
...column crossed the Song Ba River but soon ran into a Viet Cong blockade that stopped its advance. Perhaps as many as 50,000 people and 500 trucks found themselves jammed between the river and the Communists. On the other side of the Song Ba, meanwhile, the caravan began to pile up on itself. A jumble of people, motor scooters, trucks, buses and cars congealed until 5,000 vehicles turned the riverbank into a gigantic parking lot. Then Communist mortar and rocket fire slammed into the riverside, setting vehicles alight in a fire that 24 hours later was still raging...