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...behind the demonstrations at both meetings is James Peck, 45, editor of CORE'S Corelator. Despite his two latest setbacks, Peck believes that attending company meetings produces results, says his pleas helped to cause W. T. Grant to open its lunch counters in Baltimore to Negroes and Greyhound to end segregated bus seating. "I attended Greyhound annual meetings for nine years straight," says Peck. "Finally, we won." Even before the demonstrations last week, both Kress and Woolworth had stopped excluding Negroes from lunch counters in San Antonio, Galveston and Nashville. Kress has desegregated in Austin. Negotiations to desegregate...
...LYNDA PECK...
...trial thrilled all India. Commander Nanavati appeared in court in full beribboned uniform, and arrived and departed each day in a navy Jeep. The ecstatic press and public hailed him as ''the Gregory Peck of the Indian navy." His penitent wife, demure in a white blouse and a white sari, testified for him. The commander in chief of the navy described Nanavati in court as "honest, sober, efficient, and a man of character.'' Emotional Indian women mailed the commander 100-rupee notes ($21) as contributions toward his defense, and the bills bore the lipstick imprint...
...this atmosphere, an Australian girl (Gardner) and a U.S. submarine captain (Peck) fall in love. But Greg cannot let himself go with Ava because, even though he knows his wife and kiddies are dead along with everybody else in North America, "I can't accept it." Ava runs off to find consolation with a scientist fellow (Fred Astaire). "I have nobody," she sobs. "I'm afraid...
...human history seem rather silly and science-fictional. The players look half dead long before the fallout gets them. But what could any actors make of a script that imagines the world's end as a scene in which Ava Gardner stands and wistfully waves goodbye as Gregory Peck sails sadly into the contaminated dawn...