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    Progress Report
    Progress Report
    Progress Report
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    Progress Report

    By Mark Clifton

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    Progress is relative; Senator O’Noonan’s idea of it was not particularly scientific. Which would be too bad, if he had the last word!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWilder Publications, Inc.
    Release dateJun 30, 2016
    ISBN9781515412489
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      Progress Report - Mark Clifton

      Progress Report

      by Mark Clifton and Alex Apostolides

      © 2017 Positronic Publishing

      Cover Image © Canstock/mscornelius

      Positronic Publishing

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      Floyd VA 24091

      ISBN 13: 978-1-5154-1248-9

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      Progress Report

      by Mark Clifton and Alex Apostolides

      Progress is relative; Senator O’Noonan’s idea of it was not particularly scientific. Which would be too bad, if he had the last word!

      It seemed to Colonel Jennings that the air conditioning unit merely washed the hot air around him without lowering the temperature from that outside. He knew it was partly psychosomatic, compounded of the view of the silvery spire of the test ship through the heatwaves of the Nevada landscape and the knowledge that this was the day, the hour, and the minutes.

      The final test was at hand. The instrument ship was to be sent out into space, controlled from this sunken concrete bunker, to find out if the flimsy bodies of men could endure there.

      Jennings visualized other bunkers scattered through the area, observation posts, and farther away the field headquarters with open telephone lines to the Pentagon, and beyond that a world waiting for news of the test—and not everyone wishing it well.

      The monotonous buzz of the field phone pulled him away from his fascinated gaze at the periscope slit. He glanced at his two assistants, Professor Stein and Major Eddy. They were seated in front of their control boards, staring at the blank eyes of their radar screens, patiently enduring

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