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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Fiction | 8/14/1972 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Cynthia Kaufman, | Title: Harvard Will Help Launch Telescope To Study Radiation in the Milky Way | 8/11/1972 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Harrowing War in the Air | 5/1/1972 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Harrowing War in the Air | 5/1/1972 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Supersonic Teaching | 2/21/1972 | See Source »

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