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...Johnny Jingo...
...wish my fronts weren't so big. They sure ruin the line of your beads." It is the first of many slices of cutesie-pie proffered by Director George Roy Hill, including innumerable jokes about the restless, breastless flappers, and oh-you-kidding dialogue indicating that "by jingo" and "gotcha" are supposed to be terrif...
...crew, which seems to stand for the U.S. public, is shown as a lazy collective lummox that just wants to live comfortably. The captain (Richard Crenna), who talks like a Jules Feiffer caricature of Lyndon Baines Jingo, acts at the critical juncture like a militaristic maniac. The hero (Steve McQueen), who is known as Holman, but let that pass, is apparently intended to symbolize fine young men who die in battle needlessly...
Relays of Runners. The occasion was the 45th anniversary of the Partai Ko-nntnis Indonesia, Asia's oldest Commu nist Party and, with 3,000,000 members, its second largest.* The P.K.I.'s jingo jamboree brought relays of runners bearing red and yellow flags into Djakarta from points as distant as Bali (560 miles), tied up the capital's Mercedes and betjak (pedicab) traffic for three hours with a torchlight parade that ended in an effigy-burning of Uncle Sam and the Tunku. Over the whole scene reared a 40-ft. hammer and sickle woven from straw...
...biggest battle may not take place in Brussels, but in Britain itself. Opinion polls have shown that opposition to Macmillan's "grand design" is rising steadily at home. The Commonwealth leaders' warnings reinforced an improbable but disturbing alliance between the Tory Party's own jingo fringe and Commonwealth Firsters in the Labor Party...