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...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...
...Bill Coonrod, a farmer from Monticello, Ind., joined some newfound friends outside his trailer and showed what 40 years of mandolin practice could do. Don Brown, a Huntingburg, Ind., plumbing contractor who slept in his car during the festival's first weekend, opened his trunk and pulled out a five-string fiddle that he had spent two years building. "I played until 4 o'clock in the morning," he said wearily. "That's what the fun of these things is. After the main show is over, everybody gets together and shindigs...
...Environmental Protection Agency last week won its biggest victory yet in a water-pollution case. After five years of litigation, U.S. Steel Corp. agreed to stop dumping cyanide, ammonia and phenols-all toxic pollutants-into Lake Michigan and the Grand Calumet River from its huge works at Gary, Ind. It has been pumping out 16,700 Ibs. a day of solids, part of them toxic...
Died. General Lewis Blaine Hershey, 83, director of the Selective Service (1941-70), who supervised the draft of 14.5 million Americans; in Angola, Ind. Hershey enlisted in the Indiana National Guard in 1911, went to France with an Army artillery unit in World War I and later became a member of the Army-Navy committee that laid the groundwork for the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940. A target of antiwar protesters during the Viet Nam War, he countered by calling them "enemies of the U.S." and urging draft boards to step up their induction. While instituting the draft...