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Page 13 October 9,1973 Jake Fischer. Husqvarna, got a Gold in the 500 class. Czech Gold medalist Josef Fojtik passes a comfy spectator. Ron Bohn (Husl. Silver Vase team. AI Eames. the man who did it. Yankee hospitality. Dick Burleson (Husl, Silver Vase team. who believe not because they are suppose to, not because it is a present and popular fad but because they were the first to see the light and scream at it. Patriotism is so interwoven in the New England experience that it is in their genes, passed on from one generation to the next like the color of one's hair. . While the general populace may have been left wanting for information, someone made sure the local enviromnentalists found out enough about. the goings on to get them clammering for a court injunction to stop the whole show. Guess who heiped them? Bob Hicks.' Front and center please, 'sir, take a bow. Now get out. The rumor mills buzzed like a chicken house in a hail storm as to Hicks' reasons for opposing the ISDT. Most are not worth repeating and the others that NETRA members gave me I forgot. Mr. Hicks can defend himself anyway, The rumor mills had more important things to grind on than Hicks or, for that matter, the whole ISDT. They had... Steve McQueen and A Ii are here and Elvis is on the way and Evel K. Nievel is going to jump the Dalton common during the opening ceremonies an4 the KGB is going to patrol the course $0 prevent the Americans from cheating an'd Steve and Ali were playing pool at". Wait, there he is, it's Paul Newman and I'll bet James Gamer is here too and who is that in the long black Caddy with the f1ags...good Lord. It's Richard - what's he doing ~ere, this is the only state he didn't carry. By week's end the country side was in full bloom with ripe-for-plucking sweeties ready to meet anyone who even looked like anybody. The Hell's A ngels are on thefr way. Half the young teeny boppers one met were sincerely disappointed that the Angels were not in town. You fignre it out. But, I am getting away from the start. Remember now, it's cold, wet and crowded and the loud speaker is crackling out rider names and starting numbers in· staccato multi-language burst. The crowd scene is a replay of yesterday's opening ceremony, people are hanging over the fences waving flags, small children poke cameras at the riders, . they stand on top of each other and all are cheering and yelling. Especially at their fellow Americans. It was the same at the Wokonah Regional High School on Sunday. Standing room only for miles down the road. Traffic was backed up so thick the police had no choice but to turn late arrivals away; there was, no place for them to park. the crowd swarmed onto the field to be close to the action and couldn't be moved back behind the fences when all the bleachers were filled. It was then that Al Eames motored