Astounding British Edition, Vol. 9, No. 7 — page 5: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

“Tt’s almost oh-eight-fifteen; I want the newscast,” “Can’t you just relax for a while? Honestly, Senator, you’re killing yourself.” “Oh, rubbish! I’ve been working a little hard, but—” : “You’ve been working too hard. And to-day, with the sale at the store, and the last day of the campaign—” “Why the devil did that idiot of a Latterman have the sale advertised for to-day, anyhow?” he fumed. “Doesn’t he know I’m running for the Senate?” “T doubt it,” Claire said. “He may have heard of it, the way you’ve heard about an election in Pakistan or Abyssinia, or he just may not know there is such a thing as politics, I think he does know there’s a world outside the store, but he doesn’t care much what goes on in it.” -She pushed her plate aside, poured a cup of coffee, and levered a cigarette from the Readilit, puffing at it with the relish of the morning’s first smoke. “All he knows ~~ GELLEE | x oe Wy 7 i, Wij iWay ° \; ~ M3 Y, i Gy is that we’re holding our sale three days ahead of Macy & Gimbel’s.” “Russ is a good business man,” Pelton said seriously. “I wish you'd take a little more interest in him, Claire.” | “Tf you mean what I think you do, no thanks,” Claire replied. “I suppose I'll get married, some day—most girls do— but itll be to somebody who can hang his business up at the office before he comes home. Russ Latterman is so mar- ried to the store that if he married me too, itd be bigamy. Ready for your coffee?” Without waiting for an answer, she filled his cup and ejected a lighted cigarette from the box for him, then snapped on the video screen. | It lit at once, and a nondescriptly hand- some young man was grinning toothily out of it. He wore a white smock, halfway to his knees, and, over it, an old-fashioned Sam Browne belt which supported a bulky leather-covered tablet and a large stylus. On the strap which crossed his Eomichbooks (¢(©) im