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, then grinds to a halt or even retreats. Everything comes to a pause if
you few on the top stop making a profit; all that counts in your economy
is making money. Which reminds me, how in the world did you ever get out
of that planet-wide depression you were in three years ago?" Peter
MacDonald grunted his disgust. "Planet-wide depression, indeed. A small
recession. A temporary readjustment due to overextension in certain
economic and financial fields." From the other side of the table, Dick
Hawkins laughed at him. "Where'd you pick up that line of gobbledygook,
Peter?" he asked. Peter MacDonald came to his feet. "I don't have to put
up with this sort of impudence," he snapped. Watson lurched to his own
feet. "Nor do we have to listen to your snide cracks about the real
progress Texcoco is making. We don't seem to be getting anywhere." He
snapped to his associates, "Hawkins, Taller, Roberts! Let's go. Ten
years from now, there'll be another story to tell. Even a blind man will
see the difference." They marched down the _Pedagogue's_ corridor toward
their space boat. Kennedy called after them, "Ten years from now every
family on Genoa'll have a car. Wait'll you see. Television, too. We're
introducing TV next year. An' civil aviation. Be all over the place in
two, three years--" The Texcocans slammed the spaceport after them.
Kennedy sloshed some more drink into his glass. "Slobs can't stand the
truth," he explained to the others. XI. With the exception of a few
additional delegates composed of high-ranking Texcocan and Genoese
political and scientific heads, the line-up at the end of forty years
was the same as ten years earlier--except for the absence of Jerry
Kennedy. Extra tables had been set up, and chairs to accommodate the
added numbers. To one side were the Genoese: Martin Gunther, Fredric
Buchwald, Peter MacDonald, with such repeat delegates as Baron Leonar
and the Honorables Modrin and Russ and half a dozen newcomers. On the
other were Barry Watson, Dick Hawkins and Natt Roberts, Taller and such
Texcocans as the scientists Wiss and Fokin, army heads, Security Police
officials and other notables. [Illustration] Note pads had been placed
before each of them and both Watson and Gun