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Downhill Racer, a sober and straight-forward story about an aggressive young skier on the international circuit, attempts to carom past the usual clichés by taking a fictionalized documentary approach. If on occasion it takes a spill or two, Downhill still comes through as a perceptive, unsentimental portrait of a young athlete on the make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Snow Job | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

...state director of fisheries and game postponed the bear-hunting season for four days to let the bears sober up. He declined comment on a suggestion that only drunken hunters be allowed to hunt drunken bears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Fair Play for Bears | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

...started the speculative mania late in September. A drill on its 1,100-acre lease in desolate Windarra churned up traces of nickel ore. After the company announced assays of 3.5% nickel, its stock, which had sold earlier in the year for 50? a share, jumped to $35. "In sober fact, all the company has to offer in support of this is a hole in the ground," warned the London Times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Australia: Nickel and Dime Boom | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

...exhaustive testing, it is determined that Pascal has only six months to live. "What?" yells Papa Holden in a frantic outcry against destiny. "You mean there is no hope?" "I would be lying to you if I told you that there was," replies the aging specialist, with a certain sober sadness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: White Christmas | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

...GYPSY MOTHS. Three sky divers (Burt Lancaster, Gene Hackman and Scott Wilson) barnstorm through Kansas challenging an irrevocable fate in John Frankenheimer's tense and sober investigation of existential courage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sep. 26, 1969 | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

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