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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yes, it's mostly true what you say about Maui [March 26], but there are some flaws in Paradise: the tourists are so thick on West Maui that they get into each other's snapshots. Fortunately, the island is critically dependent upon the jets flying. If oil slows, the happy squeaks will be from the residents able finally to rust in peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 16, 1979 | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

...with small children living near the site, the witnesses were cautiously optimistic. Barring some "unforeseen difficulty," said Dr. Arthur Upton of the National Cancer Institute, "it is perfectly all right to keep the population in place." Can expectant mothers in the area drink milk? Said FDA Commissioner Donald Kennedy: Yes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Now Comes The Fallout | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

...world has grown more dangerous in the past few months. Tension over oil and the unrelenting growth of the Soviet arsenal have sent shock waves into the American system. "Nuclear war is becoming more probable," laments Richard Barnet of the Institute for Policy Studies. Yes, confesses one of President Carter's principal strategic planners, there is "a change in attitude" in the White House. There is the growing realization that the U.S. must sustain and demonstrate its power, even be prepared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Return to Realism | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

Comedy is not my forte. I don't know how this movie will come out. And yes, I'm scared. I'm like the Cowardly Lion, and two successes back to back have not strengthened my belief in my ability to deliver." Surely that Cowardly Lion can't be Director Steven Spielberg, whose blockbusters, Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, have already grossed $630 million. It is, however, and he has an explanation for his chattering teeth: "All the movies I've made are different. Jaws was not like Close Encounters, and neither...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Animal House Goes to War | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

...zapping the brightly lit Santa Claus decorations on Hollywood Boulevard. A crazy pilot (John Belushi) flies a P-40 fighter-bomber to search for enemy aircraft but succeeds only in creating panic below. A riot breaks out between native whites and Chicano zoot suiters, and General Joseph Stilwell-yes, the General Joseph Stilwell (Robert Stack)-is in charge of restoring order. Meantime, a periscope, looking suspiciously like the snout of a shark, pokes out of the Pacific, and a submarine commanded by Toshiro Mifune slithers toward shore. Oh, my God! The Japanese! Then . . . but Spielberg refuses to reveal the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Animal House Goes to War | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

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