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...artiness; Adams shoots straight, as these pictures of Utah's Capitol Reef and Yosemite's Vernal Fall show. Painting, he thinks, has a bad influence on photographers, leading them to romanticize what they see. Adams shuns trick effects. Objectivity, reinforced by every technical resource of the medium, is what he strives for. Adams has great reverence for the world he photographs, and the combination of realism and reverence is the measure of the man and of his work...
...101st day of the 4,300-mile voyage, the Kon-Tiki piled up on a reef just off a lovely island in the Tuamotu Archipelago. Three or four days before that, friendly natives had paddled out to visit the raft. Where, they asked knowingly in sign language, was the engine? When they realized there was none, their faces expressed pure 20th Century astonishment...
Fourteen agencies were told by the White House to take a reef in federal public-works programs. Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan was busy looking for a way to spell "Brannan Plan" backwards. After two years of campaigning to give farmers permanent high incomes, he was under White House orders to work out a scheme for keeping food prices from going any higher...
...record 65 sailing vessels are entered in the 635 mile run from the Brenton Reef Light-vessel to St. David's Head, according to the Cruising Club of America and the Royal Bermuda Club, co-sponsors of the race...
...yarn with a barnacle-covered script. It casts John Payne* as a tough ex-skipper. He is out to get the scoundrel (Lon Chancy Jr.) who locked him in his cabin, innocently sleeping off a drunk, while the treacherous first mate (Jeffrey Lynn) ran his ship onto a reef and left it sinking. As a passenger aboard another ship carrying the villains, Payne gets his revenge during a China Sea voyage marked by gory fisticuffs, a typhoon and romantic dalliance with a supposedly exotic tramp (Gail Russell...