Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 41 — page 27: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION viting other members of the faculty into the lab for the waking of the two Churchills, and they had decided against it. Without witnesses, if an accident happened, it could be explained later in a manner consistent with the dignity of the project. On the other hand, a brilliant success would be no less appreciated because of secrecy. Glory would shower plentifully when the two duplicates were exhibited. At the precise moment of twelve noon, Professor Knaut nodded to Dr. Strothmeyer, who started the draining pumps. The liquid in the glass vats sank rapidly, and the two bodies came to rest in their supporting webs. Then the sides of the nests were swung down, and the omfali were cut and tied off. Having severed: the connection be- tween the organisms and the machines which nurtured them, the scientists turned on the rays which would disturb the electrical fields of the organisms and, thus, wake them. As a mild added shock, thin streams of cold water were sent over the inert young forms, which lay like 26 summer sleepers in strange hammocks. Churchill One reacted first. His fists came up, and his whole body twitched. He began to breathe great gulps of air. His eyes opened, and he stared at the ceiling with a look of wild surmise. Churchill Two remained unmoving. Strothmeyer pressed a stud on his control panel, and the web which held Churchill Two began to shake and bounce its burden of living but unawakened man. Churchill One struggled to a sitting position, from which he could see his hosts. He blinked his eyes at them. His mouth worked, but no words came out of it. Churchill Two still had not responded. Knaut looked over at him and barked at Strothmeyer: “Increase it, man! Increase it! He'll die if he doesn’t start breathing soon!” Strothmeyer advanced the control. The web jerked and heaved violently. Churchill Two all but flew out of the nest onto the hard floor of the laboratory. Strothmeyer ran econnicloooks.Ccomn