The tomorrow people : $b a science fiction novelMerril, Judith
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The tomorrow people : $b a science fiction novel
Merril, Judith
Mars (Planet) -- Fiction; Psychological fiction; Science fiction; Space travelers -- Fiction
As you can see, I am confused by a lot of what’s going on. Will try to
get clearer by next week. Or am I missing some data?
PAC
LUNA LAB LOVE NEST SAYS McLAFFERTY
Mexcity, Oct. 2: Scientific research is losing out to research in
the art of love among the elite inhabitants of the U.S. Moon Dome,
according to Rep. Ramon E. McLafferty, Chairman of the SAC Security
Subcommittee.
The Subcommittee, which has been conducting Special Hearings probing
Security leaks in the Space program, will turn its attention next
week to a “serious impairment of efficiency and morale prevalent
in the Research Center” at the U.S.A.A. Moon Dome, according to a
statement issued after Chairman McLafferty conferred with members of an
investigating team which returned from Moon Dome on today’s shuttles.
The Representative went to Baja California Spaceport earlier this
afternoon to meet with the investigators immediately on their arrival.
In a press release issued after the conference, the nature of the
alleged “impairment of efficiency and morale” was not specified, but
another paragraph stated that “the findings of the investigators
are such as to suggest a thoroughgoing congressional probe into the
personnel of the Moon Dome and the moral attitudes and practices
prevailing there.”
Questioned by reporters, Mr. McLafferty added that the testimony he
hoped to produce at the new hearings would be of such an “intimate
and personal” nature in “many cases” that not only will the hearings
not be live-televised (as was true for the Security hearings a few
weeks back), but may be closed to the press as well. If this should be
true, the Representative assured reporters that the entire proceedings
would be filmed, for subsequent release to the public, after editing
to “protect any innocent persons whose names may be brought in either
unintentionally or with malicious intent.”
Usually authoritative sources close to the congressman said, off
the record, that there was definite evidence in McLafferty’s hands
of “certain instances of loose living and certain unconventional
sexual arrangements” at the Moon Dome. Rep. McLafferty’s comment on
this was: “We certainly do not plan to level any specific charges at
this time.” He referred to “unbelievable” conditions reported by
his investigators, and added: “We certainly will probe the matter
thoroughly, and put an end to this sort of corruption, if it does
exist, before it can become a national disgrace.”
Queried as to whether hearings on the alleged immorality would be
conducted by his Security Subcommittee, or by the SAC itself, Rep.
McLafferty indicated that he felt the security leaks originally under
investigation by his team, and the new findings, were definitely
related to each other, and that the hearings would continue under the
aegis of the Subcommittee.
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