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...handicap of jet aircraft engines is the tedious, time-wasting process of starting them. It takes about five minutes for a crew of three in a jeep rigged with ten storage batteries for extra electric power to rev an engine up to starting speed. If a jet plane lands on a field that lacks the starting equipment, it has to stay there...
...sight while for six hours the products of peace trod by: paratroopers, light and heavy tanks (Soviet-made), howitzers, armored cars, and 400,000 civilians, pulling floats and flaunting menacing banners. Mao arrived at the scene in a shiny cultural contribution of the New China: its first homemade jeep...
...Jeep" tells two stories in five languages. Neither story is very logical and the dialogue is too complicated for the occasional English subtitles to explain...
Viveca Lindfors, as the young wife confused by the mixed occupation, supports the secondary story with her convincing portrayal, but Ralph Meeker cannot do as well with his end of the deal. He is far too deliberate to be the impulsive American his jeep-mates are always talking about...
...Hong Kong money changer, who owed the police a little reward for past favors, talked. From Hong Kong the trail led to Manila, and grew hotter; once a jeep full of Tommy-gun-toting men ran Ogden to the curb and almost did him in. Finally, in the dusty villages outside Manila, he and Filipino intelligence agents discovered the grassroots base of the racket...