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...also started a craze for the pseudohistorical country-and-western ballads that the industry sometimes refers to as "saga songs." At odd hours of the day or night, 40-year-old Jimmie Driftwood takes up his guitar and plunks them out with the ease of a molting rattler shucking its skin. His most recent inspiration came to him via a radio newscast while he was touring the Ozarks in his air-conditioned Buick one hot day this summer. Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, he heard, would soon be a visitor to the U.S. Jimmie began to sing, his wife Cleda...
...seem worthwhile, but neither did it seem to diminish its inevitability. The British, whose avowed policy is to "keep the Russians talking," continued to argue that they must convince their people that the government is doing everything short of appeasement to find an alternative to the nuclear race. Rocket Rattler Khrushchev insisted: "If no agreement is reached at the Geneva conference, agreements will undoubtedly be reached at a summit conference...
...Rattler got to the Brazos...
...Rattler is the captain's friend Here, Rattler, here...
...Here, Rattler, here...