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When he at last convinced himself that he had got through the Atomic Curtain, O'Hara said, his first feeling was a wild and utterly unreasoning elation.
"I've done it! " he kept repeating to himself, much as if he had booted home a twenty-to-one shot at the races at Aintree. "I've actually done it -- the first man in two hundred and seventy years to smash through. Now we shall see!"