THE COSMIC COMPUTER

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are girls, and when work gets slack, they're always the first ones to
get shoved out of jobs. I'll bet there are a thousand girl technicians
out of work here?any line of work you want to name. I know what I'll do;
I'll make a telecast appearance. I still have some news value, from the
Barathrum business. Want to bet that I won't be the working girl's Joan
of Arc by this time next week?"

That cheered him. A girl can punch any kind of a button a man can, and a
lot of them knew what buttons to punch, and why. Say she could find
fifty girls....

He had a slightly better chance to talk to his father before the banquet
at the Executive Palace that evening. They shared the same suite at the
Ritz-Gartner, and even welcoming committees seldom chase their victims
from bedroom to bath.

"Yes, I know all about it," Rodney Maxwell said bitterly. "I was home, a