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Once the sphere is aloft, the Smithsonian takes over, and the name for the project becomes Operation Moon watch. Groups of amateur astronomers across the country will be set to watch for the satellite at twilight and, if they detect it, will rush their findings to Cambridge. With a few of these determinations, high-speed computers will calculate the satellite's orbit, and the photographic stations will be ready to assume the major part of the observing program. The satellites will also be equipped with radio senders, but these may not function adequately at first...
Author Fuchs's three stories are lit with flashes of gallows humor, particularly Twilight in Southern California, in which an egocentric Pagliacci of the novelty business grimaces and clowns his way through a party while his firm takes the long slide into bankruptcy. The finance company has his Cadillac; creditors are massing like enemy battalions; the money men don't answer their phones when he calls-and the harried businessman responds like a hermit in the grip of a mystical experience: "He saw it all. He couldn't stop talking. He would get his backing, he would...
...with the realignment of states. As a mere governor, poking along on his privy purse ($520,000) and an annual salary of $13,000, the maharaja would be able to throw no more parties like this. All through the elaborate, ten-day ceremony that marked the twilight of his greatness, farmers and shopkeepers by the thousand poured into the city from every corner of his old realm, standing in patient lines to glimpse his stables of thoroughbreds, his gold-and-silver coaches, the Daimlers, Cadillacs and Rolls-Royces in his garages. At the great final display in his red-carpeted...
...metal sphere, 20 inches in diameter, will be visible only during twilight hours, and to the naked eye only if the viewer has exceptional vision...
...Greece. Outside Zagreb they had their only flat. On through Ankara, across high, arid plateaus, down through the Taurus Mountains and across Syria the Half Safe chugged along. In Iran the craft was mistaken for a Russian tank and got a military escort to the Pakistan border. At twilight in Teheran the Half Safe smacked into a traffic island but suffered only a slight loss of paint...