Astounding Science Fiction (British edition) — page 18: what you’re looking at

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16 | ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION connections, is gone when his home is raided. Note left on desk says: “Off to visit Sam Hall. Back for liberation. MoE. Defense plant producing important robomb parts blown up near Miami by pony atomic bomb, after being warned over the phone that the bomb has been planted and they have half an hour to get their workers out. The caller, masked, styles himself Sam Hall. Army laboratory in Houston given similar warning by Sam Hall. A fake, but a day’s valuable work is lost in the alarm and the search. Scribbled on walls from New York to San Diego, from Duluth to El Paso, Sam Hall, Sam Hall, Sam Hall. Obviously, thought Thornberg, the underground had seized on the invisi- ble and invincible man of legend and turned him to their own purposes. Reports of him poured in from all over the country, hundreds every day —Sam Hall seen here, Sam Hall seen there. Ninety-nine per cent could be dismissed as hoaxes, hallucinations, mistakes; it was another national craze, fruit of a jittery time, like the. sixteenth- and seventeenth-century witch hunts or the twentieth-century flying saucers. But Security and civilian police had to check on each one. Thornberg planted a number of them himself. Mostly, though, he was busy with his assignment. He could understand conniicloooks.c© iin