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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...
...Wiel protested that he had simply been driving Matje home from a confirmation class. Matje insisted that she had simply given the pastor a daughterly peck on the cheek. But the church elders measured the offense against Jesus' words that "one who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart." Unless Van der Wiel publicly confessed his sin, they warned, "we will chase you out of town." To keep his job, Van der Wiel agreed to accept the punishment...
...Information Agency last week issued for public showing in 114 countries (but not the U.S.) a 90-minute documentary film, narrated by Gregory Peck, called John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums. Among selected U.S. audiences who were allowed to see the film, some persons who had been close to Kennedy felt that it reflected too much Hollywood gaucherie. But to most it brought unabashed tears...