THE COSMIC COMPUTER

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the same one he had been using in tearing down the converter at Tenth
Army; the stockholders and officials; the press. And everybody else Tom
Brangwyn's police hadn't been able to keep out.

The power plant was at the extreme bottom; Matsui began looking it over
at once. Above it they found the service facilities?air-and-water plant;
pumps for the artesian well;[Pg 61] sewage disposal. Then repair ships,
and a laboratory, and laundries and kitchens above that.

"Where do you suppose it is?" Kurt Fawzi was asking. "Up at the very
top, I suppose. Let's go up and work down; I can't wait till we've found
it."

Like a kid on Christmas Eve, Conn thought. And there was no Santa Claus,
and Christmas had been abolished.

The place was built in concentric circles, level above level. Combat