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...Literally, Labor Camp Archipelago. The title suggests that in the Stalin era, vast areas of the Soviet Union were dotted with countless islands of concentration camps...
...Terry. Stringbean and Chubby Wise. Shortly after Bill Monroe's music began to be heard other musicians saw the possibilities the music had and borrowed from it. The Stanley Brothers were the first group to do this, followed by Flatt and Scruggs and Reno and Smiley. Soon there were countless bands, both professional and amateur, playing music drawing from that created by Bill Monroe. Gradually the music became known as Blue Grass music, after Monroe's band name. In the South and Midwest today, there are few villages and towns without an amateur Blue Grass band. Since the folk boom...
...reason is to save $50,000 a year; some suggest that Mrs. Ryan cringes at the sight of American fighting men in the national costume of a foreign land. Anyway, the pipes that wailed a lament at Jack Kennedy's funeral, welcomed distinguished White House visitors, and enlivened countless county fairs throughout the U.S., are scheduled to sound their own dirge at a final Washington concert this month...
Unhealed Wound. Chambers was haunted by memories of violence and sacrifice: the Soviet purges, the Nazi final solution for the Jews, countless heroic individual attempts to destroy Communist officials who perpetrated acts of special beastliness. His ultimate ethical condemnation of the Communist state, and of this century, stemmed from the cruelties now worked upon the people. "A man," he wrote, "can be simply or savagely-above all, pointlessly-wiped out, regardless of what he is, means, hopes, dreams or might become. This reality cuts across our minds like a wound whose edges crave to heal, but cannot." "Perhaps the great...
...nearly 25,000 students now include only 650 blacks. They also called for complete control of a black-studies program that will enroll students from their four colleges, along with some from Hampshire College, a new school that will open four miles from Amherst next fall. "Innumerable meetings and countless proposals," complained a black spokesman over the radio, "have continually frustrated our efforts to determine the reality of our presence...