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...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 a new and beautiful kaleidoscope of colors...
...Below a flaming cross that appeared in the noonday sky above Rome, Constantine saw the motto, In hoc signo vinces (By this sign conquer), which eventually led to his conversion to Christianity...
...acre project will include a 52-story office building to house Prudential's Northeast headquarters, a 1,000-room hotel, a municipal auditorium and lesser structures, and last but not least, a tree-studded park where employees and passers-by can take their ease on a noonday stroll...
...fellow bishops that they were not passing on the merits of the Blake proposal as such, but on "an official invitation from the United Presbyterian Church-an official, important and deeply serious invitation." It was noon, and Presiding Bishop Lichtenberger interrupted the proceedings to give the regular noonday prayer: Look mercifully, 0 Lord, on the broken body of thy church. And suddenly, within about 30 seconds and without a single dissenting voice, the motion was unanimously passed. Three days later, the House of Deputies added its assent by a vote...
...molten noonday sun glared on the restless crowd of 100,000 people jammed before the cream-colored stucco palace. Wailing women ripped off their veils and clawed at their tattooed faces in an ecstasy of grief. Men in flowing djellabahs rushed about emptying buckets of water on the hundreds who fainted. Attendants lifted hysterical, writhing women onto stretchers. Broadcasts summoned all of Rabat's doctors and nurses to emergency work in the city's packed dispensaries...