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...MacDonald Fortune, 18, is the lad in from Lagos, Nigeria, wearing a white and crimson sweater, a nylon shirt with gold safety pins on each collar point, and a sky-blue gabardine jacket. The first thing he does in London, for the sky-blue hell of it, is to clamber up a down escalator. And in a sense that is what he does in rundown London for the rest of his stay...
...station, the crew gets a lecture in handling fires that might break out in the unearthly, exotic fuels. In a grey and silver building, one man takes charge of 53 spools of colored wire used to maintain the big IBM 704 impact predictor computer. On the launching pads, workers clamber along the service-tower catwalks to tinker with the steel-fisted launcher that holds a missile down during thrust buildup...
...reporters still standing on the tracks, and Wendell Willkie, thinking they were voters, waved farewell from the rear platform. When Jim Hagerty was press secretary to Tom Dewey a few years later, an officious Dewey aide ordered a train to move out while eight reporters were still rushing to clamber aboard. Hagerty dashed up ahead of the train, planted his foot on the track, forcing the engineer to stop. "They yelled like hell," recalls Hagerty. "But I knew...
When he entered his first-floor office one night, a University of Mississippi staffman was just in time to see a figure clamber out of the window and dart away into the night. The prowler had stolen nothing, but he had ransacked the desk. What was the man after? The staffman's conclusion: any personal notes or letters containing sentiments in favor of racial integration...
Science-minded viewers will find much to object to: e.g., in space the crewmen are heavy as sacks of potatoes while inside the ship, become weightless when they clamber outside to make repairs...