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Crowds of young volunteers now line up at Anderson Campaign headquarters on South Main Street in Concord, eager to spread the word about the Illinois congressman who hopes to "build a new coalition of disenchanted Democrats, independents and moderate Republicans." And the national press has slowly gravitated toward him--"Why Not the Best" asked The New York Times: in its recognition that he is as likely a candidate as Tennessee Senator Howard Baker...
July 2, 1775, a month-and-a-half after the battle of Lexington and Concord, Washington arrived on Cambridge Common to take command of the Continental Army, a raggedy forced camped here to keep the British bottled up in Boston...
...American flag never comes down at 395 Concord Ave. in Belmont. Illuminated at night and resilient through foul weather, the Stars and Stripes provides the only glint of color near the bleak rectangle of red bricks. This is a decidedly no-nonsense building, surrounded by an equally no-nonsense post office and public library. No doubt about it, there is work to be done at the national headquarters of the John Birch Society, 12 minutes from Harvard Square...
...abolition of private property, both forms of governmental intrusion into people's lives. It is nostalgia tempered with paranoia. Publications like "The Glorification of M. L. King-A Victory for World Communism," show their confusion between real Communism, and any threat to the society's world inside 395 Concord Ave.. a place Peter Schrag called "hermetic reality...
...sense, though, the John Birch Society likes it that way. its public image allows the society the smugness available only to someone who knows he will never have to test his theories, never have to put his hide on the line. The folks at 395 Concord Ave. revel in their ideological purity, knowing-like the Spartacus Youth League and the Revolutionary Communist Party know-that they will never have any power, so they will never have to take responsibility. They're untouchable...