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January 6, 1962

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a reporter at large

A VAPOR MOVING NORTH NORTH-WEST

Daniel Lang

REPORTER AT LARGE about observing the underground explosion in the desert southeast of Carlsbad, N. M..-Project Gnome which marked the opening of the …