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...those who looked directly at it, even with dark glasses, never really saw it. General Francis Farrell, one of the military supervisors, told of his feelings: "Thirty seconds after the explosion came, first, the air blast pressing hard against the people, followed almost immediately by the strong, sustained, awesome roar which warned of doomsday and made us feel that we puny things were blasphemous to dare tamper with the forces heretofore reserved to the Almighty." Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who directed the creation of this weapon at the Los Alamos lab, was reminded of a passage from the Hindus...
Performing the 1928 version, Senturia had to achieve both the transparency demanded by the contrapuntal lines in the fifth piece and the massive roar called for by the ending to the fourth. He achieved both. He brought forth each instrumental entrance with discerning care, and he chose tempos that made each piece cohere individually, and with the other five...
...Deke") Slayton blasted off last week with the roar of a soaring Atlas. ''We have only begun to fight," he wrote to the chamber of commerce of his home town, Sparta, Wis. ''We have lost a skirmish, but the battle is not yet over...
Things could go either way. If the varsity can roar back from its Puerto Rican trip and hand Army its annual spring trouncing, the rest of the season could be quite pleasant...
...three. It is the thunderclap of a sonic boom produced by a supersonic aircraft, and the nerve-ragging whine and roar of jetliners as they take off and land. Together they add up to a sore domestic problem that will increase in quantum jumps in the years ahead...