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Died. Mundy I. Peale, 66, hard-driving former president (1947-64) of the old Republic Aviation Corp. (now a division of Fairchild Hiller Corp.) who set production records during World War II, then led the company from nose-diving postwar sales to profitable production of the F-84 Thunderjets used in Korea and the F-105s flown by the Air Force during the early '60s; following a stroke; in Laramie...
...Northrup capped the dramatic rally by driving in the winning run with a solid drive over the head of rightfielder Matty Alou. The Winning pitcher was John Hiller in relief of Mickey Lolich, Horlen took the loss...
Before she turns into Don Quixote's virginal Dulcinea in Man of La Mancha, Aldonza, the scullery maid, gets a rather rough going-over from a rabble of lustful admirers. So much the worse for Sophia Loren that Director Arthur (Love Story) Hiller, currently making the movie in Rome, is a perfectionist. After umpteen retakes of the strenuous scene, Sophia was pleading sotto voce with the extras: "Take it easy, boys. I'm black and blue all over...
...Arthur Hiller, who also directed Love Story, has done a better job here. The pacing is snappy: the opening describes documentary-style how a certain bed comes to be empty--the result of a death by misdiagnosis. The following morning a nurse discovers yet another dead body in this bed; it is the corpse of a philandering med student who has used it for a clandestine rendezvous. Next comes a series of further strange deaths among the medical staff. The hospital is in a flurry, the demonstrators are chanting outside, the slimy capitalist is trying to cull support...
...when things wax serious, as they often do, that Chayefsky and Hiller choke on their own message: moral responsibility is needed not only to guide lives but to save them as well. Anyway, George C. Scott is on hand to make things bearable, and sometimes more than that. He is such a consummate actor that he can even handle Chayefsky's dialogue, which rightfully should be engraved for posterity on a plaque made of chicken...