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...about the Middle East until Begin's visit, adding a promise that the Israeli Premier would be received warmly. Begin himself denied that he was setting any preconditions for future negotiations. He told a group of Israeli industrialists in Tel Aviv that "from this bad, perhaps, good will blossom," and ordered his ministers to keep their doubts about the Carter peace strategy to themselves...
...mandolin all the way from Fort Wayne to Nashville without stopping!" he thunders into a microphone. "Don't nobody think I can't play all night if I want to!" As the crowd cheers, the big man leans forward and madly strums the opening riffs to Orange Blossom Special. Says a woman in the second row: "I just love it when Bill gets to roaring like that...
...roaring lion is Bill Monroe, 65, the patriarch of bluegrass music for more than three decades. The setting is Bean Blossom, Ind. (pop. 200), a hilly, country village where Monroe has now staged eleven annual bluegrass festivals. The fiddlers, pickers and fans at Bean Blossom are part of a steadily growing phenomenon. Before the year is out, some 500 bluegrass festivals will lure countless thousands of Americans to county fairgrounds, college campuses and places like Cumberland, Ky., Spruce Pine, N.C., and Grass Valley, Calif...
...Bean Blossom, pup tents and trailers were parked at random in the 100-acre park that is owned by Monroe and serves as the festival site. Away from the stage, a concessionaire offered bargain prices on dusty fruit jars, secondhand cookware, some 1950s sheet music and a chipped enamel bedpan. Other vendors sold straw hats, hard-to-get bluegrass records, Martin guitar strings and $1 plates of sausage gravy and biscuits. Red-white-and-blue garbage cans stood under the trees, next to inelegant eight-seater outhouses...
...Impromptu bluegrass bands sawed and plucked through the days and well into the nights. "Bluegrass is much more an amateur phenomenon than a professional one," noted Tom Adler, 30, an associate instructor at Indiana University's Folklore Institute and a banjo picker who has been coming to Bean Blossom since Monroe's first festival in 1967. "The rudiments are easy to learn-although there's no end to what can be done in terms of technical achievement...