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    A Mixture of Genius
    A Mixture of Genius
    A Mixture of Genius
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    A Mixture of Genius

    By Arnold Castle and Paul Orban

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      Title: A Mixture of Genius

      Author: Arnold Castle

      Illustrator: Paul Orban

      Release Date: May 2, 2010 [EBook #32207]

      Language: English

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      This etext was produced from If Worlds of Science Fiction June 1958. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

      A Mixture of Genius

      BY ARNOLD CASTLE

      Illustrated by Paul Orban

      Who, but the imaginative young, shall inherit the stars?

      he sleek transcontinental airliner settled onto one of the maze of runways that was Stevenson Airport. With its turbojets fading into a dense roar, it taxied across the field toward the central building. Inside the plane a red light went off.

      Senator Vance Duran unhooked the seat belt, reached for his briefcase, and stepped into the crowded aisle. The other passengers were all strangers, which had meant that for nearly an hour he had been able to give his full attention to the several hundred pages of proposed legislation and reports presented to the Committee on Extraterrestrial Development, of which he was chairman. But now there would be reporters, local political pleaders, the dinner at the Governor's, and the inevitable unexpected interruptions which were a part of every trip home.

      As he strode through the door and onto the mobile escalator, he donned his smile of tempered confidence in the economic future of the nation. A television camera went into action at once and news-men formed a small circle at the bottom of the ramp.

      That was a great little debate you put on with Ben Wickolm last week, one of the reporters said. You really tied him up.

      You can thank Senator Wickolm for arousing me, Duran answered, observing to himself that perhaps all of his efforts on the Hill did not go unnoticed in his home state, if most of them seemed to.

      What do you think, Senator, of the FCC's modified ruling on the integrated lunar relay station plan? another asked.

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