Word: lake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hardest thing about interviewing Merle Haggard," says Los Angeles Correspondent David DeVoss of this week's cover subject, "is finding him." Since Haggard is a compulsive fisherman, ever searching for the perfect lake or stream, DeVoss was sure he had caught his man when he heard that the country singer was at Orange Lake, Fla. DeVoss was about to pack his lures when he learned that Haggard, bitten by the gambling bug, was in Reno, but would meet him in Bakersfield, Calif., for an interview. Four days of high rolling, however, proved too much for Haggard, who called...
...only one kilometer long, British minesweepers have detected 180 objects. In other parts of the waterway, tanks, trucks, boats and twelve large ships are sunk and await a massive salvage effort. An additional 16 ships, with skeletal crews guarding them, are rusting but still afloat in the Great Bitter Lake, trapped since the 1967 fighting...
...with his close friend and manager Fuzzy Owen. "After going into every city in America three or four times, after traveling every highway and eating at every truck stop, it gets old, and I gotta stop and recharge my batteries." His most recent recharge expedition-three days at Orange Lake, Fla., last month, angling for black bass without much luck-left him nostalgic. "I'd give all the money I have if I could go back to live in the '30s," he says. "I would like to have seen the Depression, see people sleep beside roads with...
...Country music fans are the most loyal there is," says Haggard. Besides, the open road, the one-night gigs, meeting people-all these make a way of life that Haggard would no more give up than he would casting for smallmouthed bass in a cold, clear, wilderness lake. As he puts it in Ev 'ry Fool Has a Rainbow...
...than damage to the same region's economy, and of who should pay for cleaning up pollution. Ten plaintiffs, including the Federal Government and the states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, want a Reserve plant to stop discharging what they regard as harmful emissions into the air and Lake Superior. In reply, Reserve says that the emissions pose no danger to public health, that to stop them it would have to close down, and that if the governments are so anxious for a cleanup, they should...