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...dull gray streets and squares of the most rigidly doctrinaire Soviet-bloc country in Europe last week looked more like Watkins Glen than East Berlin. Along broad Karl-Marx-Allee strolled long-haired young men and women from every continent, laughing and singing. In the big fountain on Alexanderplatz, young people waded, danced and kissed. Their joy was punctuated by the loud beat of dozens of rock combos and brass bands and the music of choral groups...
...tiny upstate New York town of Watkins Glen last week, the sound of rock music was heard no more. The previous weekend's massive Summer Jam was over, and in its wake were other sounds. The vroom of departing campers, jalopies and motorcycles as the last of 600,000 pop fans set out along roads which for the first time in nearly a week were not clogged with traffic. The crunching of garbage compacters at work on tons of litter from the auto-race-track festival site. The echo of unanimous voices raised at the Schuyler County legislature...
...managing small rock groups. In 1970 one of his groups appeared in a concert at Ohio State University promoted by Koplik, then an undergraduate majoring in sociology. The pair hit it off, and after Koplik graduated they teamed up to promote concerts in Hartford and New Haven, Conn. Watkins Glen was their first big venture...
Finkel and Koplik are hoping to stage another big outdoor concert next summer. With Watkins Glen probably ruled out, they need a new site, but they may not have to look very hard. Already they are considering offers from Canada, California and Virginia...
...Come on people, let's be cool. Remember Watkins Glen...