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...USSR. Sick of bread and cheese. Read Soviet anti-imperialist proposals for the Indian Ocean from magazine rack. Eddy smokes last of Great Wall grass. Stand at window and imagine cranberry juice, oatmeal raisin cookies, pizzaburgers, Pack, Exchange addresses. Check connecting schedules. Arrive in Moscow a little before 5 p.m., 10 minutes late...
Their stories are personal, but so alike that a man named Lowell ("Bud") McKirgan wrote the Blue Grass Opera a few years back, and it seems to apply to almost all of them. It's about people leaving home and heading north (How did Bobby Bare sing it? "Home folks think I'm big in Dee-troit City"), planning to get rich quick and go back and buy a filling station or a hardware store, always talking about going home for good even as the debts piled up and children came along and roots went down and finally...
...side, Wendy Smith plays a mandolin with a country band called Blue Velvet. His friend Donald Clay, a Ford worker in Ypsilanti, Mich., also has a band, North Country Grass. "We was raised up together," says Wendy. "There was only one well on Ranger Ridge, and his daddy had it, and we carried water from...
...warning to incumbent governments of all political stripes. Impatient with stagnating economies and jittery over record unemployment. West European voters are showing they are hungry for new leadership. So far the majority is not ready to embrace radical solutions of either left or right. But the message from the grass roots is clear enough. West Europeans increasingly are demanding tangible results in the struggle for economic recovery...
...addition, Brown fell just two yards short of stopping league-leading Penn three weeks ago. With only seconds left in the contest, quarterback Joe Fotter kept the ball and headed for the end zone. But he slipped on a patch of wet grass and the clock ran out on Penn...