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...President's nine-day, 18,500-mile odyssey is heavy on symbolic acts...
Monroe's twice-a-day stage shows featured some of bluegrass's biggest names during the nine-day festival: the Osborne Brothers, Fiddlers Kenny Baker and Tex Logan, Banjoist Ralph Stanley and Guitarist Lester Flatt. Many of those present, however, were less interested in the stars onstage than in the chance to trade licks with fellow amateurs. Impromptu bluegrass bands sawed and plucked through the days and well into the nights. "Bluegrass is much more an amateur phenomenon than a professional one," noted Tom Adler, 30, an associate instructor at Indiana University's Folklore Institute...
Interviewed by TIME Correspondent Mary Cronin, Bronfman recalled in a husky voice how he felt during what he has often described as his nine-day ordeal in August 1975: "You've only one thought in mind: staying alive. As long as you are alive, you are alive. The only thing I feared was death." He claimed that Lynch once told him that he had made a mistake in undertaking the kidnaping. The wrenching experience of the trial, Bronfman said, made him sympathetic with Patty Hearst. "I am more cynical and skeptical." Added Bronfman, who has continued to work...
...remember Bill Campbell's shrill voice at the mike when Chico Ruiz stole home to give the Reds a 1-0 victory and start the Phils on their nine-day September '64 nosedive. I recall reading the front-page story about Richie Allen putting his hand through a headlight while trying to push his car, thus ending the Phillies' season before it began. And how about the untold number of games lost in the seventh inning as Manager Gene Mauch motioned arsonist after arsonist in from the bullpen? I would snap off the radio rather than listen to that last...
...Ford? Said Woodcock, in effect: primarily because that company has not been struck since 1967. General Motors was the target in 1970 for a 67-day walkout; three years ago Chrysler was hit by a nine-day strike. Ford also has the financial strength to meet at least most union demands, while a strike now against Chrysler or American Motors might permanently cripple those companies. General Motors is stronger still, but striking it would be far more costly to the union. The $175 million U.A.W. strike fund would be exhausted in only nine weeks in a GM walkout, but would...