" Jakie""s father points to his watch: "He will start the fasting of Yom Kippur without supper."Yudleson brings the news: "In a saloon, who do you think I saw singing raggy time songs? - your son Jakie!" His father is furious to find his son in the beer-garden performing ""Waiting for the Robert E.He stated: "Nobody""s gonna believe this" -- "That primitive apes can talk." Zira smiled at him and confessed: "I like you." Cornelius added: "I have from the beginning."Meanwhile, the US President (William Windom) announced to his stunned advisors that the previous day, a US spacecraft splashed down off the S." Present-day apes in the year 1973 could not talk, and Milo suggested for the moment: "We should follow their example."After the group of 13 and wizard Gandalf departed on ponyback from his hobbit hole, Bilbo reluctantly signed the contract and joined them (although most of the dwarves had wagered hat he wouldn""t).