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Speaker 1: This is Walter o'keeth inviting you to listen in on

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Speaker 2: M h.

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Speaker 1: Tonight lived the incredible life of ages yet to come

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in a time that might be a million years from

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now on x minus one now an incredible story of

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the world beyond.

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Speaker 3: God Dom for blast off X minus five four three

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two x minus one Fire from the far horizons of

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the unknown, comtails of new dimensions in time and space.

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These are stories of the future adventures in which you'll

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live in a million, could be years on a thousand,

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maybe worlds. The National Broadcasting Company, in cooperation with Galaxies

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Science Fiction Magazine presents he minus one tonight inside story

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by Richard Wilson.

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Speaker 2: But first hear this.

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Speaker 4: I know a couple old friends that argue.

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Speaker 3: About everything, politics, world affairs, even the time of day.

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One thing they agree on, though, is perhaps blue Ribbon

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Draft bears. They say it's the best, and for a change,

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they're both right. Perhaps blue Ribbon Draft is a bright,

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modern tasting beer that still has plenty of that old

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fashioned beer flavor. Next time you see that sign that

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says perhaps blue Ribbon Beer on draft, stop in order

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a glass. You'll soon know why so many folks agree

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on the bright modern taste of perhaps blue Ribbon Beer

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of Milwaukee now x minus one and inside story.

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Speaker 5: Every wire serviceman knows that when the legislature shuts down

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for the hot weather, when it gets too warm for

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crimes of passion, that's the start of the silly season.

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It's the time when the teletype chatters about the largest

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pumpkin grown and saw County, and the dog that found

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its way home from Luna Base to the Coco Island

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rocket Port. Well, it was the silly season. When I

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reported the headquarters Martian Sector of the Galactic News Service

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at Iopa. I found the bureau chief, Scott Warren, looking

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sourly at a strip of copy.

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Speaker 6: GNS. Sinala ed lizards, lizards lizards. No light on the

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longevity span of the Martian sand lizard was shed today

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by the Sonala Zoological Society.

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Speaker 4: Now that is what I call hot news flash copy.

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Dull day following a dull night. Was it like this

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in New York? When you left?

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Speaker 5: They had me covering a kitten in a tree in

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Gramercy Park.

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Speaker 6: I would sell my soul for a nice juicy cabinet.

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Crises or else saw a little honest graft on a

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spaceport contract.

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Speaker 5: Oh, have you got any leads?

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Speaker 7: No?

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Speaker 6: The Garrison Administration of Martian Colonial Affairs is depressingly honest.

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Speaker 5: When nothing's doing, you can stir it up a little,

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you know, rattle the local skeleton in the closet, fan

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the fires a little.

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Speaker 6: Have you read the Publication's Responsibility Act of nineteen ninety seven.

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Speaker 4: You can get twenty years for what you were thinking?

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Speaker 5: Look, what's the local canker? Saw? What would you like

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most to get an inside story on something everybody covers up?

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Speaker 2: Well, there's druro.

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Speaker 4: Oh, but that's simon pure.

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Speaker 5: What's druro?

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Speaker 4: Nully sanctuary?

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Speaker 5: Oh, religious institution.

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Speaker 6: No, it's a quarantine set up for null gravity neurocatinosis

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nulli fever. It's completely segregated. Nobody has ever gotten a

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report out of there.

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Speaker 5: Well, it sounds like a natural.

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Speaker 6: Look, George, you're new. You don't fall around with nully

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fever here on Mars. You like lighting a cigarette and

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a powder magazine?

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Speaker 5: Chief, how would you like an inside story out of drawer?

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Speaker 4: You can't get in?

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Speaker 5: I will give eight to five. Now, Look who's in charge.

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Speaker 4: The Ministry of Health?

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Speaker 5: But okay, Okay, don't let the sandalers that take up

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all the space I will get in. It wasn't so easy.

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I did fine over at the Health Ministry until I

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mentioned Druro, and then I might just as well have

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had a galloping case of Nully fever myself. I was

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referred to the press officer, to the assistant administrator, to

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the Legal Department, the Protocol division, and then back to

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the press officer. Finally I got in to see the commissioner,

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Speaker 8: Just just what caused you to raise the question of Druro,

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mister Gordon.

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Speaker 5: Look, doctor Marx, what I want is your permission to

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visit Druro and get the inside story.

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Speaker 8: Visit Druro You mean inside the camp. Yes, that's right,

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mister Gordon.

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Speaker 9: I am a.

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Speaker 8: Quoting Administrative Code Section sixty five. Any person found within

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the perimeter at Druro is considered to be a Nully

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fever victim. Contagion is something like ninety nine percent certain

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at a range of one hundred yards. What's the treat girl,

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You mean they're just shoved there to rot or nully.

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Mister Gordon will rot wherever he is. He deteriorates to

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the point of total sterility. Take my advice forget it.

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Speaker 5: Naturally, I didn't forget it. I did more research. I

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found out that nully fever seemed to be a mutated

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virus that got that way in the early Earth Mars

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rockets that had inadequate radiological shielding. The symptoms masqueraded as

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half a dozen diseases, but the end product was the same,

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a physical deterioration that I don't care to go into,

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and a psychological lowering to an animal state.

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Speaker 3: You're listening to inside the story the Night's Attraction on

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inside story.

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Speaker 5: I may be a little reckless following a story, but

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believe me, there isn't a bonus big enough to make

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a hero out of me. I had no intention of

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contracting nully fever just to provide a byline story for

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old GNS. I had stumbled on to something and I

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was wearing it when I dropped into the bureau and

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asked Scott if he noticed anything different about me.

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Speaker 4: You're putting on a little weight.

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Speaker 5: No, I'll guess again.

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Speaker 6: Your pants aren't hanging right, your shirt's are a bunch.

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Speaker 5: Of g That's because I am wearing the latest fashion,

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an invisible suit.

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Speaker 4: Oh goodbye, try another one.

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Speaker 5: Look, I'm not kidding. It's heat proof and air tight.

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They developed it over at Mass Electronics for spacesuit use.

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Speaker 4: You mean you're all buttoned up? Well, how do I

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hear you?

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Speaker 5: Short way from a miniaturized dental mike. It's hanging on

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a front tooth.

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Speaker 4: See you're not kidding. Well, how come it's invisible?

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Speaker 5: It beats me. Something to do with a non refractive coding.

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I got an experimental model from a pro at me.

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What's it good for outside of spaceship work? Not much,

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except it is my ticket to Druro.

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Speaker 4: Now, wait, don't I get it?

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Speaker 5: Chi, I can't be infected, not with this sounon. It's

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absolutely air tight. Don't worry. I'll be safe wrapped in

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plaster film like chewing gum.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, but that won't get you past the perimeter into

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the Nully camp.

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Speaker 5: Just leave that to me. I've got that figured out too.

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I picked up a sam Cat out to the town

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of Druro and waited for two days. There was a

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shipment of nullies, the last of the sinal around him

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do at the camp. Out of respect to public opinion,

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they dump nullies at night, which suited me fine. About

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one hundred nullies were going over the new comers like

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kangaroo caught in the frontier jail. I don't think anybody

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actually got killed, but they almost tore the new bunch

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to pieces, grabbing cigarettes, jackknives, but the shoes, anything, and then,

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like as not, the old timers would fight each other first.

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get a look around the camp. There were prefab huts

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and some trees. I started over to one of the.

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Speaker 2: Huts, my hut.

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Speaker 5: Take it easy, friend, I am not going to hurt you. Look,

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I'm your friend.

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Speaker 2: Sure you think you're going to steal my ration? Huh?

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I'll kill you first.

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Speaker 5: How long have you been here?

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Speaker 2: Two years? Got a cigarette here?

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Speaker 10: No?

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Speaker 5: No, don't grab I'll toss you one.

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Speaker 2: Don't you make a move, tarde me sure?

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Speaker 5: Sure shoes? What were you before you got in here?

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Speaker 2: Huh?

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Speaker 10: A teacher and I open a technical I fixed them

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before they got me. I cut down ten medics with

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Speaker 5: When is breakfast? Friend?

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Speaker 10: You go plenty hungry ration isn't till tomorrow. You think

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there was some fight last night?

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Speaker 5: Wait?

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Speaker 10: Did you see ration drop last time? Somebody tried to

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beat me to a ration case?

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Speaker 2: I fixed her? Never mind, never mind, don't tell.

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Speaker 4: Me about that.

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Speaker 5: Hey, what's that over there up the hill? Looks like

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a regular fortress.

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Speaker 2: What are you trying to do hurt me? No?

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Speaker 5: No, I just asked you what goes on up there?

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Those other huts inside that barricade?

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Speaker 2: You spying for them?

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Speaker 9: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Sure you're spying for them.

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Speaker 9: You dirty.

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Speaker 5: It isn't easy to get used to dodging nasty backhand

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punches that came out of the blue and were meant

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to kill if possible. I got my I'm up in

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time to catch about half the force, and the man

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ran off with my pack of cigarettes. But there was

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something up that hill worth looking into, a barricaded section

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set apart from the rest. So I started up. When

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I hit the woods, I stopped just three feet short

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of a ten foot spear.

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Speaker 11: All right, you get back down a hill.

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Speaker 5: Now take it easy, will you? What's going on up here?

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Speaker 11: Oh, I'm get moving. I've got to there's the kill

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if I have to.

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Speaker 5: You don't understand I just want to find out.

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Speaker 2: Sure you do.

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Speaker 11: They always do.

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Speaker 7: Every time there's a new batch, there's a few still

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smart enough to plan together.

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Speaker 11: And they come up here spying.

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Speaker 5: Spying on what.

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Speaker 2: Look, I'm a knob tree.

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Speaker 11: And then you get it in the belly.

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Speaker 5: No hero I got before he reached one and a half.

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That night I managed to talk to the ex teacher

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without either of a slugging the other. I asked him

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about the guard on the hill.

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Speaker 10: They get all the best rations, they make us give

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up our food. Do they come kill us? They've got spears, knives.

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Speaker 5: You mean there's a gang up there living off the

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rest of you. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 10: I killed one of them once according from behind with

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the rock.

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Speaker 2: They came down and killed ten of us. Didn't get

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me though, Funny, h.

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Speaker 5: I got the picture. It's been the same every time.

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Men are heard it together like animals. Andersonville, Bukenwaald and Dachau.

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The Alaskan camps in the seventies are now druro. The

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strong live off the others, a kind of racketeering in spades.

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Grab the best of everything, live as rich as you can,

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and don't worry how many you leave to starve. To death.

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Speaker 4: We're gonna get him.

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Speaker 10: No tonight, got rocks together in clubs, go up there

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and we'll get them.

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Speaker 2: You come.

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Speaker 5: I didn't have much choice. They would have torn me

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up pine. About ten o'clock at night, the mob gathered

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at the foot of the hill. Every once in a

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while they'd swipe at each other with a club of

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a rock, but mostly they shouted up at the hill,

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and then suddenly, without any signal, they charged. It was

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kind of sick men and women heaven knows what they

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were before, teachers, mothers, anything, screaming and running up that hill.

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And then the defenders cut loose that were torture so

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I could see rocks roll down, boiling water, spears, arrows

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enough to cut down that unarmed mob.

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Speaker 2: I was hiding behind a tree.

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Speaker 5: Man, sick, good and sick when it happened.

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Speaker 7: Hold on, bud, I'm gonna pull this arrow off. Oh

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here it goes now Ooo? No where am I up

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the hill?

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Speaker 11: That's where you wanted to go, isn't it?

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Speaker 4: But how did we dragged you up here?

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Speaker 11: Herb had some bandages up here.

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Speaker 5: Yeah you know one of them, aren't I want to

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who the big shots, the kingpins gangsters.

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Speaker 4: You didn't get hit in the head, did you.

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Speaker 5: It's too bad they didn't wipe you out up here.

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It's tough enough living in a place like this, but

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to prey on the weak ones.

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Speaker 11: Fella, I think maybe you got the wrong idea.

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Speaker 5: Thank Heaven, I'm safe from this kind of.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. I wondered when you'd notice.

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Speaker 11: And fancy suit of yours got torn when the arrow hit.

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Speaker 5: No lily fever.

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Speaker 7: That's why we hauled you up here. We spotted something

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funny about you. A kettle of boiling water splashed on you.

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You didn't even notice.

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Speaker 5: Who are you, George Gordon, Galactic News Service.

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Speaker 4: A newsman? Listen?

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Speaker 12: Does anybody know you're in here? Yeah, maybe there's a chance.

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Can you tell them?

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Speaker 2: They got to let us out.

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Speaker 12: Tell them what it's like up here. Make them understand.

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We write messages for the ration planes and they ignore them.

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You can't get close enough.

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Speaker 2: To the to shout.

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Speaker 4: They shoot you down.

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Speaker 2: They gotta let us out.

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Speaker 5: Oh sure, sure, After what I've seen, that's the last

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thing I do try to con somebody into letting this

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loose on the population. I've seen enough nullies. Even if

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I have to spend the rest of my life in

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this camp. I don't want to be responsible for making more.

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Speaker 4: Wait a minute, you don't get it.

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Speaker 12: We're not nullies up here.

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Speaker 5: What nobody gets in the camp.

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Speaker 2: Who isn't a nully?

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Speaker 11: That's right, We all had it when we came in,

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but not anymore.

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Speaker 2: Up here. We're curs You're lying.

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Speaker 4: You've got to believe me.

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Speaker 12: We've been living up here for four years, keeping guard,

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trying to live like human beings in the middle of

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those animals down there, losing maybe three or four a

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week fighting them off.

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Speaker 5: You know, you're more dangerous than they are down there,

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because somehow you've kept some intelligence enough to want revenge

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on the rest of the world by infecting.

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Speaker 4: Oh no, you've got to believe me.

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Speaker 2: We're cured.

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Speaker 12: Nolly fever can be cured somehow because we've done it,

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about one hundred of us more now with the babies.

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So what babies, normal healthy babies.

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Speaker 5: He pointed across the clearing to another hut, and I

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saw it, a woman about thirty sitting on the doorsteps,

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nursing a baby, an infant, And I heard the words

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of the commissioner echoing in my ear, And of course,

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total sterility these weren't nullies, not anymore. If they could

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have babies, they must be cured. Living as a desperate

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island in a mad world of violence. Well you know

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the rest of it. You ought to It was carried

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under my byline and every fact sheet on three planets.

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They had a microtechnician up the hill who gimmicked my

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miniature microphone with a hair and a piece of quartz crystal.

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So I cut in on the main traffic beam between

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Sinala and Iopia. I had Scott Warren at Government House

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in fifteen minutes, struckting to blow the lid off the

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whole colonial government. The babies did it aerial photographs with

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micro enlargements. They had pictures of those babies on the

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wire the next day. Red tape held it up a week,

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but finally one hundred cured ex nullies and one reporter

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were out of Druro at Iopa General Hospital for checks.

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They found it. Nully fever is psychosomatic. You take somebody

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strong enough to fight for survival, give him incentive, and

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he'll lick it by himself. No miracle drugs needed. It

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starts with a virus, all right, but it ends with psychotherapy.

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A good dose of willpower. I got back to work

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in a month.

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Speaker 6: Welcome back, George Tea Times dead is ever back to

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the longevity of the Martian Sanders.

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Speaker 5: In dru Nully story played out.

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Speaker 4: That is last week's Erry.

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Speaker 2: Now what else is new?

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Speaker 5: Maybe we can find another skeleton in the closset. How

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about life on the Martian movements?

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Speaker 9: Now?

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Speaker 5: That WoT be good for a headline?

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Speaker 3: Fred Collins again, and I'll have a word for you

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about next week's X minus one.

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Speaker 11: In a moment, Hey, Molly, it's me.

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Speaker 2: Where are you here?

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Speaker 9: Begin?

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Speaker 10: What's the matter?

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Speaker 5: Are you doing anything?

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Speaker 13: Am I doing anything? I've got a towel wrapped around

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my head, a broom in one hand, a bucket of

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soap and water in the other, and the kitchen curtains

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under my arm. And you ask me if I'm doing anything. Sure,

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I'm vacationing in Florida.

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Speaker 5: Here here, Molly, let me take this stuff.

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Speaker 4: What are you doing?

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Speaker 11: Just sit down, sit right here.

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Speaker 5: You're a sweet maggie.

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Speaker 14: But I've gone You can go back to work in

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a minute. I got something big to tell you, you.

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Speaker 4: Know, something really big. What have you gone down?

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Speaker 5: We're going to be on monitor.

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Speaker 14: Monitor NBC's fascinating, motivating, merrymaking skindle eate and ever vescerating

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Speaker 13: Oh that Monitor, of course, And we're not at McGee

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whan this weekend and every weekend.

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Speaker 5: What do you say to that?

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Speaker 13: No, that's wonderful me.

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Speaker 14: So don't make any plans, folks. We'll be seeing you

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this weekend all weekend on Monitor.

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Speaker 3: And now a word about next week's story, The Category

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Inventors by Arthur Sellings on X minus one. You have

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Company in cooperation with Galaxy Science fiction magazine, which this

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month features Time Waits for Winthrop by William Ten. Winthrop

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was literally the most stubborn and selfish man in five

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hundred years. How could they convince him not to strand

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them in this society of shriek fields and panic stadiums.

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Galaxy Magazine on your news stand to day to night

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were Bob Hastings, Leon Janney, Ralph Bell, Richard Hamilton, Edwin Cooper.

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