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...wild Apaches have taken to the hills, and after them clops the cavalry including a bony scout named Sam Varner (Gregory Peck). In the ensuing roundup, one face is out of place: a blonde woman, Sarah Carver (Eva Marie Saint), prisoner of the Indians for some ten years. Out of pity-and maybe a pinch of desire-Varner takes Sarah and her half-breed son to live on his New Mexico ranch...
Aiming for the classic genre, Director Robert Mulligan occasionally misfires. But he is saved, somewhat surprisingly, by Peck, who is in private life an avid collector of Lincoln memorabilia. With flashes of ironic humor and his customary rigid dignity, he escapes the boundaries of the role and gives it an honest, Abe-like stature. The rest of the cast is resolutely unglamorous; even Saint has the hollow eyes and concave face of a woman who has been out on the plains too long...
When Hong Kong's leftist Chinese spattered the British colony with posters proclaiming "Long Live Chairman Mao," it was hardly surprising. But there were other signs shrieking "Go Home Gregory Peck," and that seemed curious. What upset the left wing was The Chairman, a film in which Peck plays a U.S. scientist who enters Red China to help a Chinese colleague escape from Mao's clutches. The Chinese press railed at the moviemakers for "insulting the cultural revolution and provoking 700 million Chinese people." In Hong Kong, the anti-Peck campaign, complete with bomb threats and promises...
...good thing for the Baseball Writers' Association that its members decided last year to bestow two Cy Young awards, one for each league. Otherwise, how could they have selected the outstanding pitcher of 1968? In the American League, there was Denny McLain, 24, the Peck's Bad Boy (TIME cover, Sept. 13) who posted an astounding 31-6 record to lead the Detroit Tigers to their first pennant in 23 years. In the National League, the St. Louis Cardinals' Bob Gibson, 33, boasted equally stunning statistics: a 22-9 record that included a phenomenal 13 shutouts...
...timing of the research cutbacks especially irks graduate schools. The cuts came after universities had already signed contracts with professors and graduate researchers for the current school year. "You just can't tell a man to come to the university and then cut him off," protests Raymond E. Peck, a vice president of the University of Missouri. With commitments already made, the schools claim that they will have to dip into their own operating funds or endowments to keep many of the NSF projects going. The Berkeley mathematics department termed the NSF reductions "outrageous and inequitable," and issued...