Astounding British Edition, Vol. 9, No. 7 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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Mee BER UY AY THe y Pa dd ied a} "a while to another whose only duty at the moment was to answer questions and furnish help to a small class who were reading silently from a variety of smug- gled-in volumes. “Only a hundred and twenty, out of five thousand,” Yetsko said to him, as they were dropping down in the elevator by which they had come. “Think you'll ever really get anything done with them?” “T won’t. Maybe they won't,” he re- plied. “But the ones they’ll teach will. They’re just a cadre; it'll take fifty years before the effects are really felt. But some da a | The shops—-a good half of the school was trades-training—were noisy and busy. Here Prestonby kept his hand on his gas-projector, and Yetsko had his rubber hose ready, either to strike or dis- card in favor of his pistol. The instructors were similarly on the alert and ready for trouble—he had seen penitentiaries where the guards took it easier. Carpentry and building trades. Machine shop. Welding. ‘Copter and TV repair shops—he made a minor and relatively honest graft there, from the sale of rebuilt equipment. Even an atomic-equipment shop, though there was nothing in the place that would excite a Geiger more than the instructor’s luminous-dial watch. Domestic Science—Home Decorating, Home Handicrafts, Use of Home Ap- pliances, Beautician School, Charm School. He and Yetsko sampled the pro- ducts of the Cooking School, intended for the cafeteria, and found them edible if uninspired. Business—classes in recording letters, using Illiterate cards for same, filing re- cordings—always with the counsel, “When in doubt, consult a Literate.” General Arts—Spanish and French, from elaborate record players, the pro- geny of the old Twentieth Century Linguaphone. English, with recorded- speech composition, enunciation training, semantics, and what Prestonby called English Illiterature. The class he visited was drowsing through one of the less colorful sections of “Gone With The Wind.” World History, with half the students frankly asleep through an audio- visual on the Feudal System, with planted NULL-ABC hints on how nice a revival of same the Middle Ages with the Fraternities of Literates. American History, with the class wide awake, since Custer’s Massacre was obviously only moments away. “Wantta bet one of those little cherubs doesn’t try to scalp another before the day’s out?” Yetsko whispered. Prestonby shook his head. “No _ bet. Remember that film on thé Spanish In- quisition, that we had to discontinue?” It was then that the light on the class- room screen, which had been flickering green and white, suddenly began flashing Prestonby’s wanted-at-office signal. Prestonby found Frank Cardon looking out of the screen in his private office. The round, ordinarily cheerful, face was serious, but the innocent blue eyes were as unreadable as ever. He was wearing one of the new Mexican charro-style jackets, black laced with silver. “I can’t see all your. office, Ralph,” THESE MAGAZINES re CAN BE SENT ps TO YOU— Mi ct RO —BY POST pir= THROUGH AN ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION FLYING MODELS - - “ STAMPS - - se THE RING (American edition) STRENGTH & HEALTH PEOPLE TO-DAY -_— - MODEL AIRPLANE NEWS RECREATION - POPULAR SCIENCE RADIO-ELECTRONICS METRONOME - PHOTOGRAPHY .- FAMILY HANDYMAN MODEL RAILROADER DOWNBEAT - ° NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Also many other Scientific or Technical publications available: enquire to-day. SEND REMITTANCE WITH ORDER TO— > ATLAS PUBLISHING & DISTRIBUTING Co. Ltd. 18 BRIDE LANE, LONDON, E.C.4. (Q) would be, and identifying the clergy of GEomicboo “. & 4 aeLA tal th Lae taed htt Oh \> z