Astounding Science Fiction, British Edition — page 70: what you’re looking at

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

By JAMES BLISH The Okies had come a long, long way .. . and were un- wanted, as usual. For no isolated, static culture wants the stimulus of a@ more active, wider-ranging culture changing its rigid ways ! Ilustrated by Wale Miller I. HE city hovered, then settled silently through the early morning darkness toward the broad expanse of heath which the planet’s Proctors had designated as its landing place. At this hour, the edge of the misty acres of diamonds which were the Greater Magellanic Cloud was just beginning 68