Word: pecks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hitchcockily establishes the city's menacing mood. One glittering spire of steel and glass, suddenly goes dark. Inside the building, corridors teem with silhouetted confusion- elevators stall, office parties begin, and the leader of a world-famous peace foundation plummets 27 floors to his death. Hero Gregory Peck, looking vaguely troubled, chooses to walk down. En route he meets an enigmatic beauty (Diane Baker) who seems to know him intimately, though he has never seen her before...
...semifinals. The finalists: bowlegged, two-time Champion Chuang Tse-tung, 23, a student at Peking's University of Physical Culture (one of few schools in the world that gives a degree in Ping-Pong), and Challenger Li Fu-jung, 22, who resembles a pint-sized Gregory Peck. Li was the crowd favorite. Often laying back as far as 20 ft. from the table, he brought gasps of astonishment from the crowd of 8,000 as he casually returned smash after smash, biding his time until he uncoiled to slam a blur of white past Chuang for a point. After...
Outlining a comprehensive traffic program for Cambridge, Rudolph wrote the City Council: "This is what we need. If the city is not prepared to furnish this we can only 'peck away' at the problem instead of solving it. This 'pecking' can be done without a traffic department and without wasting any further money for personnel who are hamstrung in their efforts...
...find out who we really hate." The show was off and trotting-the Academy Awards never run. What kept interest sparking during the preliminary events was pure starlight. In recent years, Hollywood has increasingly chosen to stay home and watch on TV, but this year, Academy Board Member Gregory Peck took it upon himself to change that, personally called everyone to be sure they would be there. It made a difference. Not only were there old-timers such as Fay Wray and Chester Conklin, but of the top six award winners, only Peter Ustinov, named best supporting actor, was absent...
...SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-12 midnight). Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons and Carroll Baker star in William Wyler's The Big Country. Color...