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The Project Gutenberg eBook, If at First You Don't..., by John Brudy This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: If at First You Don't... Author: John Brudy Release Date: January 18, 2010 [eBook #31009] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T...*** E-text prepared by Greg Weeks, Graeme Mackreth, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustration. See 31009-h.htm or 31009-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/31009/31009-h/31009-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/31009/31009-h.zip) Transcribers note: This etext was produced from _Amazing Stories_ June, 1960. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed. IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T ... by JOHN BRUDY [Illustration: ILLUSTRATOR VARGA] _To Amos Jordan, Secretary for Cislunar Navigation, no situation was unsolvable. There were rules for everything, weren't there.... Except maybe this thing ..._ "What's the matter, anyway?" Amos Jordan snapped at his assistant. "Is everyone in the Senate losing their mind?" "No more than usual," said Clements, the undersecretary. "It's just a matter of sentiment." "Sentiment?" Jordan poured himself a glass of lemonade. "What's sentiment got to do with it? It's just a standard procedural problem." "Well, not exactly," began Clements soothingly. "After all, now, '58 Beta was the first long-lived satellite ever launched, and the first successful shot of the old Vanguard series. People are proud if it. It's a sort of monument to our early efforts in astronautics." * * * * * Jordan sipped experimentally, adding a little sugar. "But, Clem, the sky's full of the things," he complained. "There must be a hundred fifty of them in orbit right now. They're a menace to navigation. If this one's due to fall out, I say good riddance." Clements spread his hands helplessly. "I agre
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