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...picture. It was obviously intended to scoop Rollerball, a more costly and similar science-fiction enterprise (TIME, July 7) and it commits its petty larceny briskly and efficiently, with none of Rollerball's thundering pretension. David Carradine, late of TV's Kung Fu, appears as the champion racer Frankenstein. Various parts of his body have been smashed, burned or discarded during his racing career, and he now appears in a black mask and zippered leather suit, looking like a cross between a rock star and a fetishist mannequin. His main competition is a character from Chicago (well played...
...spirit of gallantry that he believes in and admires. Fortunately, he has communicated his earnestness to Writer Goldman, whose humor is tempered by uncharacteristic restraint, and to an excellent cast, among whom Bo Brundin as Kessler stands out. As for Redford, this is his best work since Downhill Racer. Appealingly awkward when trying to express his feeling for flying, he is in his most dashingly self-destructive mode when demonstrating the heights to which his passion drives him. All in all, The Great Waldo Pepper is popular entertainment of a very high order. ∙Richard Schickel
Though the trappings of high-powered competition were not present at Putney, high-powered racers were. Topranked Bill Koch, who placed third in the 15-km. races at the European Junior Championships last year, won the 15 km., gliding through the familiar terrain near his family farm in Guilford, Vt. In the 50-km. ordeal, Tim Caldwell, a wiry young Olympic hopeful, won going away. And the country's top woman racer, Martha Rockwell, now has 15 individual national titles after winning the women's 5-, 10-and 20-km. contests...
...reason why Americans have been slow to assault European dominance. Successful competitors in Europe earn as much as $50,000 a year from government salary, prizes and endorsements. In the U.S. a top performer is lucky to win a plane ticket and three meals a day. Says American Racer Ron Yeager: "Europeans are racing for dollars. Skiing is their only occupation. What are we racing for? Self-satisfaction, I guess...
Berlitz recites the familiar roll call of the triangle's victims-ranging from large ships like the 425-ft. freighter Marine Sulphur Queen, which disappeared off the Dry Tortugas in 1963, to small yachts, like the ocean racer Revonoc, which vanished off Florida in 1967. He also makes much of the famous "lost patrol" incident in December 1945, when five Navy torpedo bombers on a training flight, as well as a flying boat sent out to search for them, seemed to vanish into thin air. Heightening the sense of mystery, Berlitz cites reports of strangely spinning compasses and unexplained...