Word: concorde
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...liquor and women, 'objects' it evidently regarded as equally dangerous. As the country reads about colonial resentment at British monopolies, 70,000 unemployed workers from General Motors, one of the largest of its monopolies, wait for their unemployment checks to stop coming. And as President Ford praises the embattled Concord farmers who fired the shot heard round the world, similarly embattled farmers of Indochina--who, like their Concord predecessors, fight the world's strongest power as well as local people loyal to a colonial government or to old ways--continue to meet all the resistance Ford can muster against them...
...with a trumped-up consensus which conceals real inequality and conflict. One way to repudiate this attempt at a false consensus is through demonstrations, like the one the People's Bicentennial Commission has called for this Friday night. The Commission's plan for a midnight-to-draw vigil at Concord was unnecessarily theatrical, and its planners' emphasis on vogue phrases about "economic independence," or sending "Wall Street" an unspecified "message," isn't much help either. The revolutionaries whose language the Commission takes over wholesale weren't just stealing phrases--they were reacting to their time's problems and responding...
More than 100,000 people are likely to congregate today on the peaceful middle-class towns of Lexington and Concord, starting as early as midnight, to watch to series of reenactments and speeches having to do with more momentous but less closely watched and planned events of 200 years...
...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...
...speech by President Ford and a re-enactment of the Concord skirmish--with Boy Scouts dressing up as Redcoats--will highlight official festivities at the bridge Saturday morning. A similar re-enactment will be observed in Lexington...