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...White House driveway there was something close to a traffic jam. Scarcely had the Shah of Iran driven away in his flag-bedecked limousine than Australia's Prime Minister Gough Whitlam pulled up to the door. Yet even as Whitlam walked out the door, he could see that disk-of-the-sun flags were already flying for the next official guest, Japan's Kakuei Tanaka...
...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...
...secret of our success was time," says Finkel. "We began planning six months ahead and devoted our full time to it for two months, trying to cover all the bases." In contrast to the 1969 Woodstock festival, Summer Jam had a whopping stage (100 ft. by 60 ft. by 12 ft.) completed three weeks before the show. The electrical wires were all put underground, the 1,000 portable toilets were in place a week early, and the 100,000 gal. of bottled water arrived days in advance of the crowds. Koplik and Finkel also laid on five helicopters for constant...
...With college students home for the summer, and with Watergate a daily reminder of so much wrong in the older generation, the Summer Jam tapped a widespread desire to return to the uninhibited atmosphere of the campus, to create a vast, congenial party atmosphere with none of the negative overtones of rock's erratic past. Most of the kids just wanted to lie back in the grass, smoke dope, drink wine and be free of worry about being busted-or about being harassed by any adult authority. Then, too, many of them were younger brothers and sisters...
Woodstock, Powder Ridge and Altamont are now part of American legend, symbols of the best and worst of times for the once flowering counterculture. So the Summer Jam held last weekend in Watkins Glen, N.Y., seemed somehow an atavism, more a class reunion than a happening, a nostalgic spectacle of youth in search of its youth. "I can't believe it, but I'm selling more milk than beer." said a local store manager. Some hard drugs and lots of marijuana were available, and the 500 deputy sheriffs on the scene were kept busy. Although more than...