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Instead, they agreed that it is "necessary to distinguish between policy and philosophy," as Hoffmann said. Until de Gaulle withdraws from NATO operations Wald and Hoffmann suggest that his statement is just another expression of his preference for an associated rather than integrated defense effort...
...There is a Latin atmosphere." In Houston, he accepted a blue-blooded quarter horse, gave permission to Oilman Frank Waters to make a movie about the revolution. "To do justice to a story so powerful," said Waters, "I have hired the top producer in America, Jerry Wald." Hoped-for cast: Marlon Brando as Fidel and Frank Sinatra as his pony-tailed brother Raul...
...dress rehearsal was scarcely finished last week when Songwriter Sammy Cahn shouted to Producer Jerry Wald that the award-giving ceremony of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was not going to fill its allotted time. "You know more than NBC?" growled Wald. "Yes," shot back Cahn. But no one was listening. Next day, when the show went on for TV audiences across the U.S., it was short indeed. It was also pretty bad. Even the early part of the show was poorly organized, unimpressively staged, and sometimes blatantly vulgar. At the end, M.C. Jerry Lewis was left...
...Academy meeting in Brookline, Wald was presented with two traditional Rumford medals and a $5,000 cash prize for the "perceptive studies through which (Wald) has illuminated the biochemical basis of vision...
...recipient, in his Rumford Medal Lecture, spoke on the evolution of the capacity of plants and animals to respond to light cues. Wald described the responses in terms of molecular or chemical mechanisms...