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Atomic Pioneers Gather Again to Recall Manhattan Project

LOS ALAMOS, N.M., Oct. 5— The old men stared at one another through squinted eyes on Thursday and began to remember the lives they once lived.

Slowed by age and bent with frailty, about 50 veterans of the Manhattan Project gathered at the Best Western Hilltop House Hotel here as part of three days of events to commemorate their work on the atomic bomb.
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