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...called back to the Pentagon briefly to receive the Air Force Cross for heroism. After the ceremony, Air Force Chief of Staff John P. McConnell told Risner, a part-Cherokee from Tulsa: "Now goddam mit, Robbie, don't go back out there and get your tail shot...
...planes came back last week. High over the Song Chu river locks near Thanh Hoa, something slammed into the tail of a Navy F-4 Phantom jet, converting it instantly into flaming debris. It seemed the work of SAM, the mobile Russian rocket, which had already brought down two other high-flying U.S. jets. Apart from the half-dozen fixed sites clustered around Hanoi, the U.S. does not know how many SAM units there are in North Viet Nam, for as quickly as they fire, the mobile installations lumber off on their trucks and trailers to new locations...
Lift-off from Cape Kennedy, when it finally came, was timed to the second. The countdown clock had not been stopped once−a truly remarkable demonstration of cooperation between men and intricate machines. Rising above its roaring tail in textbook exactitude, the booster flung its capsule aloft with a heart-stopping burst of power. Ahead were eight orbital days−eight days that would, if all went well, teach man more than he had ever known before about the problems and possibilities of flight in space...
...PEACOCK'S TAIL by Edward Hoag/and. 257 pages. McGraw-Hill...
...currently living in Greece on a grant from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Critics found his earlier books, The Cat Man (about circus life) and The Circle Home (about boxing), flat on characterization and rickety on plot, but praised him as a stylist. The Peacock's Tail is the story of a youne New Yorker's trials after he loses his girl Sandy to a Jewish rival. He becomes a refugee in a West Side hotel inhabited by whores and derelicts. Most of the book recounts his oscillating between Sandy's upper-class East Side...