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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trap nets. They would require an initial investment of $20,000, about 20 times the cost of using a gill net. In the Chippewa view, the dispute is plain enough: it is between poor Indians who fish for a living and rich whites who fish for fun. Says Chippewa Elmer LeBlanc: "Our forefathers gave us the right to hunt and fish. I want it to be a livelihood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Chippewas Want Their Rights | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

...cross between Elmer Gantry and Joe McCarthy we can do without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 22, 1979 | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

...together into a seamless super-chase. It is reason enough to attend this movie, but there are others. Among them are two classic Jones-supervised shorts, What's Opera, Doc?, a send-up of Walt Disney's Fantasia in which Bugs Bunny makes a ravishing Brunhilde opposite Elmer Fudd's stalwart Wagnerian hero. In Duck Amuck, Daffy Duck, whose specialty is egocentricity, suffers the indignity of having his costumes and backgrounds constantly redrawn by a demented animator whose hand and brush become Daffy's antagonist in a brilliant bit of Pop surrealism. Almost as original...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Magnificent Obsessives | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

...Elmer W. Flaccus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 8, 1979 | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

...Comptroller General Elmer Staats, not Staab, who said those nice things about Patricia Harris as Secretary of HUD [July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 13, 1979 | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

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