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Every boot who ever lived has had the lesson drummed into his shaved head: the U.S. Marine Corps is the best goddam outfit that ever existed. Its traditions are the most glorious, its battles the bloodiest, its men the bravest...
...Glorious Fourth. In point of fact, Operation Rooney has been overdue for years. U.S. "representation allowances," i.e., entertaining funds, are embarrassingly skimpy. Paper Tycoon James Zellerbach says that he has spent $200,000 of his own money while serving as Ambassador
...Glorious Fling. A popular Madrid story insists that Jimmy's father once banished him to a Mora ranch, where he promptly sold all the family cattle and spent the money in a glorious fling in Bilbao. When the money ran out, Jimmy supported himself by playing the piano in a local bar. Visitors to Jimmy's overstuffed Madrid apartment are impressed by his fur-lined easy chair, stupefied by the flowers that are banked everywhere, even in the bathroom, and often intimidated by his bad-tempered chow dog and five enthusiastic great Danes. Jaime's mother, Dona...
...when it comes to stealing scenes, the actors often have to give way to the dingoes, the wombats, and especially to the endless flocks of sheep that drift across the screen like clouds with hooves. Sheep are also involved in the film's best sequence, a glorious piece of frontier humor in which Mitchum enters a shearing contest and takes a terrible licking from an 80-year-old man (Wylie Watson). Stone the crows if, on the whole, the show ain't square dinkum and everybody's cuppa...
...Force and Army brass, defending their way of life, hurried to point out that an oasis like Wiesbaden is an inspiration to men stuck with unattractive assignments at a Turkish radar site or a missile battery on a remote German mountain-they feel a three-day pass to glorious Wiesbaden makes it all worthwhile...