Word: leyton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JERICHO (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). When a radar expert has to be smuggled behind Nazi lines to study a new antiaircraft gun, an espionage team code-named Jericho is tapped for the job. With John Leyton, Marino Mase and Don Francks in the leads. Premiere...
Parks preaches rebellion against Momism to the best friend (John Leyton) who idolizes him. He persuades Leyton to pay half the rent on a seedy flat, uses it to enjoy Leyton's girl friend (Jennifer Hilary) and finally seduces Leyton's divorced mother (Jennifer Jones). Shortly afterward, The Idol explodes with the kind of gut-clutching Greek passion that seems altogether alien to the cool contemporary scene set forth in the rest of the picture...
...Leyton's thunderstruck discovery that Mom is a woman capable of physical desire looks a bit forced since Actress Jones plays her from the start as a very turned-on lady. Jennifer, now 47, even goes at her gardening with a provocative air, tugging at her blouse front while she breathlessly inquires of her son's pal: "Ever been to Corsica? The sun beats on you like a hammer . . . delicious, frightening." Her ultimate surrender proceeds, posture by posture, through moments of squeamish abandon on a dance floor to a New Year's eve when she sweeps downstairs...
...votes. Of all the Labor victories, the happiest belonged to Patrick Gordon Walker, whom Wilson had appointed Foreign Secretary in his first Cabinet. But Gordon Walker lost in 1964 in a campaign marred by racism in the Midland town of Smethwick, then lost a "safe" by-election at Leyton last year and had to step down. This time Gordon Walker won Leyton handily, will probably be rewarded with a Cabinet post-perhaps as the minister to explore the possibilities of Britain's entry into the Common Market...
...Labor's original majority was four. It was raised to five when a Conservative was elected nonvoting Speaker of the House, but dropped to three in January when Wilson's prospective foreign secretary lost the "safe" Labor constituency of Leyton, and thus gave another seat to the Tories in a by-election...