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Many of the tests that followed are just vaguely familiar names now, but they loom large in the memories of the weary scientists, including Ogle, who sweated them out. There was Ranger at Frenchman Flat near Las Vegas, Greenhouse at Eniwetok, Buster-Jangle and Tumbler-Snapper. With Ivy in November 1952, the first hydrogen bomb was exploded, wiping out the tiny island of Elugelab, and digging a crater a mile long and 175 ft. deep in the ocean's floor, near Eniwetok. During Castle, near Bikini in the spring of 1954, miscalculations on power and meteorology caused radioactive...
...realize that Bogners are really gigantic girdles. Last week I was dancing with a Dartmouth senior who kept ogling this blonde who could hardly move in her stretchies. 'Now there's a nice pair of Bogners,' he said. And I said to myself: 'Buster, you should see her trying to get out of them...
Buffalo, Melody Fair Tent Theater: Old Stone Face Buster Keaton in Once Upon a Mattress...
...drum. Placing the drum in the open center of his 6-ft. by 8-ft. raft, Rafael lashed it loosely with loops of wire so that it would not float off and left himself some slack wire to serve as reins. Then, straddling the drum like a maritime bronco buster, he shoved out to sea under the blazing Caribbean sun. To fight his mounting thirst he took rare, tiny sips of sea water, and when he could fight off sleep no longer, he would slump over his barrel. After a while, the days and nights ran together, and once...
Thanks mostly to Director Fred Zinnemann, the story goes knocking along like a southerly buster through some bloody-awful bush between Nimmitabel and Jindabyne. Mitchum and Kerr sometimes sound like Aussies-come-lately, but on the whole they manage the loose-elbowed looks and snarly charm of the permanent residents. Peter Ustinov, playing an unmarried remittance man who has to beat the girls off with a waddy, makes a comical old dag. But when it comes to stealing scenes, the actors often have to give way to the dingoes, the wombats, and especially to the endless flocks of sheep that...