Word: pecks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GREGORY PECK...
...Samuel Bogoch of Boston's Foundation for Research on the Nervous System taught pigeons to peck a particular button to get a kernel of corn from a machine. He found that the chemical brain reaction was not only the creation of new brain protein, but protein-sugar combinations (mucoids) as well. Until three years ago, said Dr. Bogoch, only 20% of the brain's proteins had been identified. This has now been raised to 60%, and those known are divided into 16 groups. Two of these groups show a marked, though brief, increase when a pigeon learns...
...scene was a crowd stopper: a man in Pope's raiment was kissing a pretty young girl. But it was only Actor Anthony Quinn, 51, dressed as the fictional Pope Kiril I in the movie version of The Shoes of the Fisherman, bestowing a paternal peck on Daughter Catalina, 25, when she visited the set in Rome. That little respite notwithstanding, Quinn is living his role with fierce dedication-so much so that shooting had to be stopped two weeks because of a huge swelling of Quinn's right eye that he is convinced was psychogenic. "It used...
...encounters if he practices palmistry are many, and the rewards are considerable. One summer, for example, I was traveling extensively (I read 3000 palms in nine different states), and one afternoon I found myself on the Staten Island ferry. A strikingly pretty model was being photographed in a Peck & Peck outfit for an August issue of Vogue on the stern of the boat. She learned of my skills, and before long I found myself holding both her hands in mine with her hair blowing in my face, and how else, may I ask you, would I even have...
Hollywood really knows how to make a guy welcome. Barbra Streisand, Jack Lemmon, Steve Allen, Lucille Ball, Pierre Salinger, Gene Kelly, Kirk Douglas, Charlton Heston, Merle Oberon, Fred Astaire, Ava Gardner, Omar Sharif, Milton Berle, Danny Thomas, Mario Thomas, David Niven, Alan Jay Lerner, Donna Reed, Gregory Peck, Natalie Wood, Andy Williams, Tom Smothers, Don Adams and Shirley MacLaine-all of them, plus about 400 others, paid $250 per couple to do honor to Paris Couturier André Courrèges, 44, at a showing of his new collection in Los Angeles. Courreges could only assume that their presence...