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What left Watson holding the bag was a series of bizarre political twists. After Watson announced his retirement last fall, the University's search committee interviewed over 100 applicants for the post and apparently settled on Robert Peck, athletic director and chairman of the Physical Education Department at Williams College. But the impending choice of Peck, which someone in the department apparently leaked to The Boston Globe, touched off a furor among both students--who resented the fact that there were no undergraduate representatives on the search committee--and old alumni, who would rather see McGovern in the White House...
Beyond that, one must regretfully conclude that Gregory Peck is not the ideal choice to play MacArthur. He is a pleasant man, good at playing troubled, conscientious, reasonable characters. But he is perhaps the least self-centered of actors, and while he tries hard to adopt the grand MacArthur manner he just cannot manage it. The fire, the touch of lunacy, is not there, though Peck does nicely in the first and last scenes when he portrays the aged general, flames banked, the mood autumnal...
...University search committee attracted publicity last month when its apparent first choice, Robert Peck, athletic director at Williams College, with-drew his application...
...Peck alleged that "political maneuvering" among alumni and administration members to block his appointment and pave the way for the appointment of a Harvard alumnus forced him to drop out of the race. The controversy arose after a report in The Boston Globe said the committee had decided to name Peck...
...remains one of the leading candidates for the post, however, Shortly before Peck withdrew, over 40 Harvard and Radcliffe athletes sent a letter to Bok endorsing either Reardon or Baaron B. Pittenger Jr., associate director of athletics, for the post...