Word: poppycock
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...Journey to the Center of the Earth. Prissy Professor James Mason, followed by Plucky Youth Pat Boone, Beautiful Widow Arlene Dahl, and a noble-souled duck named Gertrude, spends a year exploring some of the most preposterous yet wonderfully funny poppycock Jules Verne ever published...
...from his tweeds, adjusts his rucksack and deerstalker, stamps his stout shoes, grasps his walking stick and casually strolls off-to the center of the earth. Fortunately, he is followed by a Hollywood producer (Charles Brackett) with wit enough to smile at some of the most preposterous pseudo-scientific poppycock ever published by Jules Verne. And so what might easily have been just one more merely colossal ($4,500,000) monster-movie comes off the reel as a grandly entertaining spoof of the boys' book as it was written before the comic strips took over-the sort of kids...
...Federation's dubious future. Nyasaland's 3,250,000 natives are determined to leave the Federation. Similarly, Northern Rhodesia's blacks fear domination by big, white-run, apartheid-minded Southern Rhodesia, most powerful member in the Federation. Last week Federation Prime Minister Sir Roy Welensky replied, "Poppycock!" when radio interviewers suggested that a "tide of African nationalism is rising." But African leaders said they would boycott Macmillan's speech in Salisbury, which is being given in two movie theaters (one with loudspeakers) that are normally barred to nonwhites. "We don't want to be used...
...cringe," said Ambassador Scott McLeod, "at the effect which American movies appear to create on the local population." Reading on through a poll (reported in Variety) of U.S. embassies throughout the world, Producer Walter Wanger found enough similar opinions to send him to Hollywood's defense. Said he: "Poppycock!" The world's peoples, he argued, welcome the fresh air of America's uncensored, unsubsidized films. Producer Sam (The Bridge on the River Rival) Spiegel was less certain. Asked if he thought the U.S. film industry was meeting its international responsibility, Spiegel replied, "No. We in Hollywood live...
...early to think of orbiting Air Force generals and rocket company executives circling the moon. To bring some sense to such flights of fancy, President Lee DuBridge of Caltech last week gave the Western Space Age Conference in Los Angeles a tranquilizing dose of anti-poppycock...