Word: concordes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...LEXINGTON police arrested more than 300 residents of that affluent suburb and of neighboring Concord early one Sunday morning a couple of weeks ago. The townspeople had joined members of Vietnam Veterans Against the War in a peaceful sit-in near the Minuteman statue on Lexington town green. When the "bust" came, the demonstrators lined up patiently and politely for the buses to carry them away for processing. Most of them were released after they paid a %5 park violation fine; charges of disorderly conduct were dropped. For many of the residents this was their first act of civil disobedience...
After the 500, Donohue and Revson will fly to Boston for Monday's Bryar Trans-Am race. Bryar Motorsports Park, located just east of Concord, N. H., about 90 minutes from here, plays host to the Sponts Car Club of America's sedan racers. Javelin drivers Donohue and Revson will have as their chief competitors '63 Indy winner Parnelli Jones and Peter H. Gregg '61 in last year's championship-winning Bud Moore Mustangs...
...Crimson golfers finished their season on a winning note Friday afternoon by beating Trinity, 6-1, and M. I. T., 51/2-11/2. at the Concord Country Club...
Marks and Salatich came up with the most one-sided victories of the day, both registering 7 and 6 triumphs. Salatich, a sophomore who won the Greater Bostons three weeks ago on the same course, had his usual fine round at Concord...
Zindel's exploration of a deep, narrow shaft of his life recalls Henry David Thoreau's rejoinder to those who urged he broaden his perspective through travel: "I have traveled a good deal in Concord." Zindel says rightly that despite the psychologically crippled characters and lacerating tensions in Marigolds, it is an affirmation of life-the experimenting schoolgirl endures literally and symbolically, despite the emotional violence around her. Like her, Zindel has transcended his experience. Thoreau eventually went as far as Minnesota. For Zindel, Manhattan may be far enough; it is the inner distance that counts...