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    Progress Report
    Progress Report
    Progress Report
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    Progress Report

    By Alex Apostolides and Mark Clifton

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      Progress Report - Alex Apostolides

      Project Gutenberg's Progress Report, by Mark Clifton and Alex Apostolides

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: Progress Report

      Author: Mark Clifton

      Alex Apostolides

      Release Date: July 27, 2011 [EBook #36867]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PROGRESS REPORT ***

      Produced by Greg Weeks, Dianna Adair and the Online

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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!

      Progress Report

      By Mark Clifton and Alex Apostolides

      Illustrated by PAUL ORBAN

      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 the beads of sweat on their faces and necks and hands, the odor of it arising from their bodies. They too were feeling the moment. He picked up the phone.

      Jennings, he said crisply.

      Zero minus one half hour, Colonel. We start alert count in fifteen minutes.

      Right, Colonel Jennings spoke softly, showing none of the excitement he felt. He replaced the field phone on its hook and spoke to the two men in front of him.

      "This is it. Apparently this time

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