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...Creeger Jr. American Legion Post No. 168, where a press center had been set up. Or they prowled the woods and roads near the gates of Camp David amid a growing armada of sound trucks. Poking through the greenery like the head of a dinosaur, the occasional giant cherry picker, hired at great expense by TV networks, hoisted transmitting antennas above the trees...
...speaker is not a broken-down banjo-picker from somewhere in the South who has played one roadhouse too many. He is one of rock's most successful and respected figures, Robbie Robertson of The Band, explaining in his own slightly hackneyed way the group's decision last year to stop touring. The Band--Robertson (lead guitar and covals), Rich Danko (bass and vocals), Levon Helm (drums and vocals), Garth Hudson (keyboards) and Richard Manuel (piano and vocals)--did what few groups, successful or struggling, have ever managed to do: they quit while they were still ahead...
...some big guns return. Lundy, known as "The Doctor" for his steady surgical brand of play, and for his long hours of work, will play at number-one after three years at the two spot. Smiling Texan guitar-picker Scott Walker moves up from three to two, while Don Pompan, a freshman whiz from Southern California, has jumped into the three spot...
Doug, the guitar-picker in the photograph below, got a late start compared to the precocious babes. After attending high school in Cambridge, he landed a job on a cattle ranch outside of Casper. Throwing a lasso came easily to him; Doug also tried his hand at riding some of the ranch's unbroken horses. Now enrolled in the pre-veterinarian program at the University of Wyoming, Doug rides the college rodeo circuit...
...Marianas offer a honeymoon resort and war shrine. Thirty thousand Japanese soldiers died on Saipan, and every year Japan Air Lines sends "bone-picker charters" to the island. They bring hundreds of cash customers who thwack through the tangantangan in search of ancestral skeletons -though any human bones will do. These are then burned to release the spirits of the dead, while the living grow nostalgically misty-eyed on tours of old bunkers. Says one local bureaucrat with profound seriousness: "The only problem I can foresee for the Marianas is running out of bones. We are aware of the shortage...