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...putters about the suburbs of literature. As the child of zealous Philadelphia Quakers (his father was a glass manufacturer), little Logan fell in love with religion at the age of four and for the next few years became, as he later put it, an "odious little prig" who would clamber aboard horse cars handing out tracts and asking people if they had been saved. Before long he lost his faith; never again would he so thoroughly commit his emotions to an interest outside himself...
...divert their wastes from the state's polluted rivers and streams, by forcing mine operators to reforest the huge scars made by strip mining, by establishing public recreation areas and raising unemployment insurance. He had tangled with Joe Grundy again at the 1948 convention when he refused to clamber aboard the Dewey bandwagon. Now both sides recognized that the struggle was at a crucial stage...
...tower to show his scorn for humanity. Despite numerous old Hollywood traditions, Radek does not jump, thereby supplying one of the film's pleasantest surprises. He comes breathlessly close, however, in a series of amazing shots that will make you wonder whether or not Tone and Meredith actually did clamber all over this maze of girders. How Maigret bloodlessly outwits Radek proves a vastly satisfying way of rounding out these two-hours of tense action...
...good news to the 800 uranium prospectors now wandering over the vast Colorado Plateau. Some are gnarled, weather-beaten desert rats packing their gear on a mule, looking for telltale yellow uranium streaks on the faces of weathered cliffs. Others are pink-cheeked amateurs with Geiger counters who clamber over the rocks, listening with ear phones for radioactive clicks, thus providing a source of innocent merriment (see cut). At Marysvale, claims have been staked on every inch of land for eight miles around Segmiller's strike, and the town citizens are now spending almost all their time...
...aquatic love scene: "Maureen O'Hara playfully pushes John Payne into the water, dives in and a gay race ensues. Boy & Girl clamber onto the raft. . . . After they get tired laughing, he gives her a hard, intense, libidinous look and seals her mouth with a very long passionate kiss . . . so that the screenwriter won't have to think up any dialogue...