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...this Gatling-gun novel has been a reporter, an on-camera TV newsman and an actor whose best-known performances were as Tarzan and a cowpoke on a foolish series called Six Guns Across Texas. John Lee Wallace, fed up with Hollywood, returns home to Dallas, leaving a vapor trail of dope and alcohol. He and his best buddy Buster plan to make "one good, true, fair thing"-a documentary film about the real Texas. The time is the late summer...
Observation of far-infrared radiation is impossible to make from the ground because of obstructive water vapor. The balloon will rise above this vapor at an altitude of 18 miles, Noyes said...
...Vapor Trails. In the North Vietnamese capital, 60 miles inland, loudspeakers urgently awakened the sleeping city: "Comrades, attention! The enemy is near Hanoi." At 9:30 a.m., the second wave of the U.S. air assault appeared. This time the raiders were 32 Air Force F-4 Phantoms, far nimbler than the high-and blind-flying B-52s; for nearly half an hour they bombed and strafed warehouses and petroleum storage areas on the outskirts...
...than an hour, 40 Navy jets from carriers wheeled around the city, pummeling warehouses, a huge truck park and nearby Kien An Airfield, where three MIG-17 fighters were destroyed on the ground. By the time the third attack had ended, the sky over Haiphong was streaked by the vapor trails of SAM missiles...
...Like a vapor trail in a clear winter sky, a trace of the supersonic transport lingers on. Congress shot down the SST last spring after a titanic propaganda battle between environmentalists and the aerospace industry. But one weapon in the fight, a pro-SST primer published in 1969, is still being used in some of the nation's elementary schools...