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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...
...occasion is the commemoration of the opening battles of the American Revolutionary War--and the people of Boston, Lexington and Concord are ready...
...bicentennial is a tightly organized production, geared toward massive press coverage--in the atmosphere of efficiency and bureaucracy that prevailed in Concord and Lexington yesterday, the men in tricorner hats looked no more a part of the scene than they would have on any other...
...hard to tell if the People's Commission's effect will be more or less successful than the official cities' ones; from the looks of Lexington and Concord yesterday, the spirit abroad in the land was strictly 1970s...
...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...