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...ruling ends a saga of byzantine complexity. In the past 16 years, the case has come before the Supreme Court no fewer than eight times. Some 39 companies, Government agencies and private citizens have joined the case over the years. At one point, a bill was introduced in Congress to exempt the El Paso-Pacific Northwest merger from the antitrust laws, but it died in committee. El Paso paid close to $16 million to lawyers and public relations men during its losing fight...
Fast, tough, sinuous, with a score of Jamaican reggae that jauntily accentuates its vigor, this saga of the career of a small-time pot pusher and pop star is a kind of Caribbean Threepenny Opera. It does not have the depth, but it does have some of the energy and a little of the fury, the same sort of lovingly savage feeling for the brash ethos of the underworld...
Standing there last Thursday in the town square of Johnson City, hearing and sensing these people, one was suddenly aware that this was a great American saga of sorts-the beginning and the struggle, linking all these people, then the rise to undreamed-of eminence of one of their own, and finally the return to the same land and the same people...
Consider the latest chapter in the saga of the pirate radio ships operating in the North Sea. Anchored just outside territorial waters off The Netherlands, these vessels beam a mixture of pop music, disk-jockey egos and insistent commercials into homes otherwise served only by relatively sedate Dutch broadcasting. Until recently, this profitable operation was shared by Radio Veronica and Radio Northsea, which had agreed to a truce after three frogmen hired by one of Veronica's owners had planted a bomb aboard Northsea (TIME, May 31,1971). Now, though, something new has come between Veronica and Northsea...
Jeremiah Johnson pretends to be the saga of a tall, tough mountain man who takes tetuge items civilization in the Utah wilderness Sydney Pollack, hailed for They Should Houses Don't They". directed: he cast his old friend. Robert Redford, in the title tole Redford comes to the mountains a young creenborn, enters the tutelage of an old grizzly hunter named Bear Claw, and gets roped into wilderness domesticity when an Indian code of honor forces a wife upon him. Civilization does catch up: a cavalry detachment enlists him to help rescue a party of settlers trapped high...