SUPERIOR LIVES UP TO NAME A RISING COMMUNITY The city council of Superior, Wisconsin, passed a resolution urging its Ohio namesake to come back down. The Superiors in Nebraska, Wyoming, Arizona and West Virginia, glad to have the publicity, added their voices to the plea. The Pennsylvania Railroad filed a suit demanding that the state of Ohio return forthwith one train and five miles of right-of-way. The price of bubble gum went up from one cent to three for a nickel. In Parliament a Labour member rose to ask the Home Secretary for assurances that all British cities were firmly fastened down. An Ohio waterworks put in a bid for the sixteen square miles of hole that Superior had left behind, explaining that it would make a fine reservoir. A company that leased out big advertising signs in Times Square offered Superior a quarter of a million dollars for exclusive rights to advertising space on its bottom, or Earthward, side. It sent the offer by air mail, leaving delivery up to the post office. In Washington, Senator Bobby Thebold ascertained that his red-haired secretary, Jen Jervis, had been aboard the train levitated with Superior and registered a series of complaints by telephone, starting with the Interstate Commerce Commission and the railroad brotherhoods. He asked the FBI to investigate the possibility of kidnaping and muttered about the likelihood of it all being a Communist plot. A little-known congressman from Ohio started a rumor that raising of Superior was an experiment connected with the United States earth satellite program. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration issued a quick denial. * * * * * Two men talked earnestly in an efficient-looking room at the end of one of the more intricate mazes in the Pentagon Building. Neither wore a uniform but the younger man called the other sir, or chief, or general. "We've established definitely that Sergeant Cort was on that train, have we?" the general asked. "Yes, sir. No doubt about it." "And he has the item with him?" "He must have. The only keys are here and at the other end. He couldn't open the handcuff or the brief case." "The only _known_ keys, that is." "Oh? How's that, General?" "The sergeant can open the brief case and use the item if we tell him how." "You think it's time to use it? I thought we were saving it." "That was before Superior defected. Now we can use it to more advantage than any theoretical use it might be put to in the foreseeable future." "We could evacuate Cort. Take him off in a helicopter or drop him a parachute and let him jump." "No. Having him there is a piece of luck. No one knows who he is. We'll assign him there for the duration and have him report regularly. Let's go to the message center." * * * * *