Lackluster field shadows Oscar race this year
Contenders for best picture lean to crime dramas like Bonnie and Clyde and In the Heat of the Night. The Graduate appears strongest among noncrime films, while predictions point to Dustin Hoffman and Rod Steiger as top male contenders and Faye Dunaway or Vanessa Redgrave among leading female names.
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Dirk Bogarde
Rex Harrison
George C. Scott
Faye Dunaway
Vanessa Redgrave
Edith Evans
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Katharine Hepburn
Julie Andrews
Rosalind Russell
Rosie
Elizabeth Taylor
Julie Christie
Mike Nichols
Virginia Wolf
Fred Zinnemann
Bird Watching To Cost More This Christmas Count
New York AP reports the 68th annual Christmas Bird Count runs Wednesday to January 1, with over 10 000 participants nationwide. To cover the growing data work by the National Audubon Society, the participation fee rises from 50 cents to 1 dollar for this year.
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National Audubon Society
Thief Executed for Gasoline Theft at Air Base
Chiang Ching Yuan 21 was executed by firing squad in Formosa for stealing gasoline from a Nationalist air force base in South Formosa. Two accomplices, Chiu Chi Fu 24 and Chen Jung Chuan 26, were sentenced to 15 years each after a court martial.
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Chen Ching-yuan
Chiu Chi-fu
Chen Jung-chuan
Theft hits Plantation police as gift disappears
A Christmas gift vanished from the Plantation police station lobby on Wednesday. The single present, an electric shoeshine kit, was under the tree and highly desired by the officers, leaving the force puzzled by the theft.
Home hints and letters from readers on clever kitchen and home hacks
A collection of reader tips and notes from 1967 sharing ideas for gift wrapping with numbers, toy and household hacks, window and door cleaning tricks, repurposing a shower curtain as a mattress protector, storing a folded bedspread, and hanging glass chimes to react to heat.
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Heloise
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