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...near the Pacific's Christmas Island, there have been eight explosions of airplane-dropped atomic devices to check out new weapons designs, and one underwater shot to study antisubmarine techniques. Security rules prevented anyone from disclosing what the air tests showed, although California's Republican Representative Craig Hosmer described one airdrop at which he was an eyewitness: "It flashed brighter than the noonday sun. As the fireball developed, it turned to shades of orange, red and purple. Then a white mushroom cloud shot toward the heavens. The morning sun began to shine upon it, producing...
Inspired to plot a righteous world. Charles Hosmer...
...join the Zen Buddhist club, learned where to sneak in after college gates close at midnight. The headiest shock was Oxford's enfolding leisure. Suddenly there was time to talk all night, to sleep until noon. "Back there," mused the go-go Air Academy's Brad Hosmer, 21, "I barely had time to read a book a week." Muttered another unbound lieutenant: "I keep thinking I ought to be doing something every second...
...military students seem less Edwardian than determined. Air Academy-man Hosmer (No. 1 in his class) is backed by West Pointers Jim Ray (No. 2 in his class), Stan Karanowski (No. 3), Powell Hutton (No. 4), Mike Gillette (No. 23) and Pete Dawkins (No. 10), West Point's celebrated Ail-American halfback and first captain of cadets. Dawkins will play Rugby only for his intramural Brasenose College team ("not with a splash, but gradually"). Hosmer will do some wistful spare-time flying ("All my classmates are in pilot training"). The real job is Oxford's challenging labor...
...Dumbo, on Condor. Nothing like that happened last week. As scientists and spectators, including Senator Wallace F. Bennett of Utah and Congressman Craig Hosmer of California, watched from a shelter two miles away, Kiwi strutted its stuff without a misstep...