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Show Movie tells one of century's great stories of tense adventure o uei Bronston's mUiu-' mUiu-' million dollar production of "55 Days at Peking" now playing at the Academy theatre with Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner and David Niven starring, is based on one of the most exciting ex-citing stories of the century. Its scenes of incredible valor and intense emotion are played play-ed against the vast canvas of the Boxer Uprising in China during 1900 and are photographed photo-graphed in Super Technirama Technicolor. Heston plays a United States Marine Corps major stationed m ttie exotic and mysterious Peking of that era, and Miss Gardner is the stranded Russian Rus-sian baroness he meets there. Niven is seen as the British Ambassador destined to cross both their paths. To give "55 Days at Peking" the authenticity and grandeur which have become a hallmark of Bronston's productions, the largest motion picture set ever built was constructed sixteen miles outside of Madrid where the producer headquarters. Covering 250 acres it was surrounded sur-rounded by the mammoth Tartar Tar-tar Wall 40 feet high and wide enough to drive four carriages car-riages abreast. What are a driver's chances of having an accident in his lifetime? It depends partly on the distance he drives, according accord-ing . to the National Safety Council. A person who drives 12,000 miles a year has one chance in 3 of having some kind of an accident. There is 1 chanco in 4 that danmage will be limited limit-ed to property, 1 in 35 that there will be at least one injury, in-jury, and 1 in 1,300 for a fatality. fa-tality. One who travels 8,000 miles a year stands 1 chance in 5 for any accident, 1 chance in 6 for a property danmage accident, ac-cident, 1 in 55 for an injury accident, and 1 in 2,000 for a fatal one. A driver who goes 4,000 miles has 1 chance in 10 for any accident, 1 in 11 that it will be property damage, 1 in 110 for injuries, and 1 in 4,000 for a fatality. |