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FIRE UNDER THE ASHES by James McNeish. 324 pages. Beacon Press...
...docking maneuver, and Armstrong and Scott were still in their first orbit when they began the complicated exercise in space navigation. By 4:21 p.m. E.S.T., during Gemini 8's third revolution over the Pacific, Armstrong reported: "Object in sight." There was the Agena, 76 miles ahead, its beacon flashing against the dark sky. After gradually closing the gap, Gemini 8 eased up and in front of the Agena, while swinging around so that it was flying backwards, 150 feet ahead of the target. "We are station keeping" (flying in formation), reported Armstrong at 5:40 p.m. America...
...known one of Diefenbaker's Ministers "very well," still wore the gold birthstone ring given to her by another, Associate Minister of National Defense Pierre Sevigny, whose "frequent companion" she had been from 1958 to 1960. She had visited Sevigny in his suite in Ottawa's Beacon Arms Hotel, entertained him in her own apartment in Montreal, attended an election banquet with him, even flown in a government plane with him to Boston "for the races." She had, she admitted, become involved with a "medium-time" Montreal racketeer. But had she been a spy? Never...
...Caribbean and the Mediterranean. Gone too are the coastal shuttle boats to New York (remember Gloria Wandrous in Butterfield 8?) which did in a more leisurely age what the Logan shuttles do now. At every turn, Boston Harbor evokes its past, not in the solid romantic way of Beacon Hill, but in a mood of decline and acceptance of a less-glamorous modern shipping world where Boston found itself without prestige, an old forgotten relative to the north...
...problems that has reportedly delayed construction is the difficulty in finding someone to manage the motel. It was once rumored that Howard Johnsons would take over, but the Beacon Construction company has yet to announce an operating company...