Astounding Science Fiction, British Edition — page 91: what you’re looking at

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

EARTHMAN, COME HOME 89 it; the result, Amalfi was sure, would be a small but serious “‘base surge” every time any correction was applied. The spindizzies of IMT seemed to have been wired together by Cro- Magnon Man. But they would fly the city. That was what counted. Amalfi finished his examination of the booster generator and straight- ened up, painfully, stretching the mus- cles of his back. He had no idea how many hours he had consumed. It seemed as though months had passed. Heldon was still watching him, deep blue circles under his eyes, but still wide awake and watchful. And Amalfi had found no point any- where in the underground chamber from which the spindizzies of IMT could be controlled. The control point was somewhere else; the main control cable ran into a pipe which shot straight up through the top of the cavern. . » « LMT made the sky | Fall... Amalfi yawned ostentatiously and bent back to fastening the plate over the booster’s observation port. Karst squatted near him, frankly asleep, as relaxed and comfortable as a cat drowsing on a high ledge. Heldon watched. “T’m going to have to do the job for you,” Amalfi said. “It’s really major; might take weeks.”’ “I thought you would say so,” Heldon said. ‘And I was glad to give you the time to find out. But I do not Q Comichooksnco im