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X Minus One - "Target One" (1957) · Old Time Sci-Fi Radio | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: In a future scarred by atomic war, officials authorize an
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  Speaker 1: experimental journey through time to prevent the catastrophe before it begins.
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  Speaker 1: Their intended target is Albert Einstein, whose scientific work is
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  Speaker 1: blamed for opening the atomic age. On December 26th, 1957,
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  Speaker 1: NBC presented X-1, episode 123, Target One, adapted for radio
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  Speaker 1: by George Lefferts from a Frederick Pohl story first published
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  Speaker 1: in Galaxy. Frank Silvera, Joseph Bell, Dean L. Olmquist, Al
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  Speaker 1: Jasbo Collins, Guy Repp, and Charles Webster are heard under
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  Speaker 1: the direction of George Voutsis. We now take you back
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  Speaker 1: to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: This is Nightline, your open door to people and places,
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  Speaker 2: and this is Walter O'Keefe. Nightline invites you to listen
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  Speaker 2: in on NBC's award-winning science fiction series, X-Minus One.
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  Speaker 3: Countdown for blastoff.
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  Speaker 4: X minus 5, 4, 3, 2, X minus 1, fire.
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  Speaker 3: From the far horizons of the unknown come tales of
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  Speaker 3: new dimensions in time and space.
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  Speaker 4: These are stories of the future.
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  Speaker 3: Adventures in which you'll live in a million could be
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  Speaker 3: years on a thousand maybe worlds. The National Broadcasting Company,
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  Speaker 3: in cooperation with Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, presents X.
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  Speaker 5: Minus 1. Tonight, Target One.
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  Speaker 3: But first, hear this. The presents have been opened, the
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  Speaker 3: gifts enjoyed, and in the case of the kids, a
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  Speaker 3: few are already slightly battered.
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  Speaker 4: But NBC has one.
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  Speaker 3: More holiday package for you, and it'll be delivered over this.
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  Speaker 5: Weekend on Monitor.
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  Speaker 3: There'll be the music of such bands as those of
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  Speaker 3: Guy Lombardo and Richard Maltby, punctuated by the antic commentary
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  Speaker 3: of Monitor's own Bob and Ray and Fibber McGee and Molly,
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  Speaker 3: and underscored by the up-to-the-minute reports of NBC's newsmen at
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  Speaker 3: home and abroad. From Friday night through Sunday midnight, Monitor
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  Speaker 3: will bring you another weekend of drama, music, news, and interviews.
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  Speaker 3: Of special interest to sports fans will be NBC's coverage
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  Speaker 3: of the Friday night fights, Saturday's Blue, Gray, and North-South
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  Speaker 3: football games, and Sunday's National Football League championship games. Use
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  Speaker 3: and enjoy Monitor, your weekend radio service. Yes, start your
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  Speaker 3: weekend right with Monitor on Friday nights and stay with
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  Speaker 3: Monitor all weekend long over most of these same NBC stations. Now,
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  Speaker 3: X-1 and tonight's story.
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  Speaker 5: Target One. Headquarters of the World Council was in the
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  Speaker 5: ruined United Nations building in New York. It took me
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  Speaker 5: an hour to reach it, picking my way across the
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  Speaker 5: red-colored rubble that had once been a proud city. I
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  Speaker 5: was ushered into the office of the president of the council,
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  Speaker 5: a former Russian scientist named Melkov. It was hard to
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  Speaker 5: realize that only a few decades ago, these people had
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  Speaker 5: helped us destroy the world in an atomic war that
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  Speaker 5: left less than 100,000 people on the face of the globe.
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  Speaker 4: Come in.
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  Speaker 5: Dr.
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  Speaker 6: Marin.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Good to see you, Doctor. Sorry I'm two days late.
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  Speaker 5: I had to land at Boston. It's the only airport operating.
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  Speaker 4: I understand. You want to sit down?
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  Speaker 5: Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: I suppose you are wondering what this is all about.
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  Speaker 5: Very little surprises me, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: President. Good.
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  Speaker 7: As you know, Doctor, the Great War of 1960 left
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  Speaker 7: very little of the human race. What it did leave, well,
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  Speaker 7: two billion corpses, three continents rotting and unlivable, and every
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  Speaker 7: survivor mutating. I believe you yourself have had children who
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  Speaker 7: could scarcely be called human.
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  Speaker 4: Sorry to be so blunt.
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  Speaker 5: Why did you send for me, Mr.
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  Speaker 8: President?
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  Speaker 7: Doctor, suppose I gave you an opportunity to do something
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  Speaker 7: extremely practical.
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  Speaker 4: Such as?
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  Speaker 7: A chance to prevent the destruction of our world.
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  Speaker 4: which took place 30 years ago.
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  Speaker 5: To prevent what has happened? To stop an atomic war?
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  Speaker 4: Yes. Would you do it?
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  Speaker 5: I'd sell my soul to the devil, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: President. You mean that?
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Doctor, what would you say was the most important.
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  Speaker 7: scientific discovery of the 20th century?
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  Speaker 5: I suppose Einstein's equation... E equals MC squared.
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  Speaker 4: Exactly.
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  Speaker 7: This formula unlocked the atom. Without it, there would have
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  Speaker 7: been no atomic energy. And consequently, no bomb.
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  Speaker 4: No war.
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  Speaker 5: The formula did not cause a war, Mr. President. Nor
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  Speaker 5: did the man who discovered it. He was one of
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  Speaker 5: the finest human beings who ever lived. A man utterly
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  Speaker 5: dedicated to the pursuit of peace and harmony.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, exactly. That is what will make your task so abhorrent, Doctor.
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  Speaker 5: What is this task, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: President?
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  Speaker 7: Quite simply, it is the murder of Albert Einstein. Are
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  Speaker 7: you insane?
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  Speaker 4: Perhaps. Only history will record that.
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  Speaker 5: How in the name of heaven Albert Einstein died in 1956?
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  Speaker 4: I am well aware of that.
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  Speaker 7: In order to commit this murder, Doctor, you will have
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  Speaker 7: to travel back in time.
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  Speaker 5: Travel back?
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  Speaker 4: You mean that.
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  Speaker 7: I mean that our scientists have succeeded in their experiments.
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  Speaker 7: Parachronon penetration has been achieved.
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  Speaker 5: It's fantastic.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, so were atomic energy and rockets to the moon
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  Speaker 7: and radio waves long before both of those.
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  Speaker 5: You're actually suggesting that I return to the early 20th
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  Speaker 5: century to commit a murder?
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: But why Einstein? Why not the men who took his
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  Speaker 5: contributions and twisted them into ghastly and human weapons? Why
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  Speaker 5: not them?
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  Speaker 7: Because others would replace them. There are many minds so
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  Speaker 7: filled with contempt for their own lives that they.
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  Speaker 4: Would be willing to destroy others.
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  Speaker 7: So warped with hate that they might even enjoy the job.
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  Speaker 4: No. No, it must be Einstein.
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  Speaker 5: Well, then why me? Why not select some murderer, some fiend?
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  Speaker 4: Because you are a man of the highest morality.
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  Speaker 7: This task must not be performed by some twisted monster.
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  Speaker 4: It must be done by a man.
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  Speaker 7: Of integrity who fully realizes his responsibility. To do otherwise
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  Speaker 7: would be to degrade ourselves and our victim.
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  Speaker 4: Come here, to the window. Do you see that covered
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  Speaker 4: barge lying in the East River? Yes.
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  Speaker 7: That barge is the finest laboratory we could assemble. Inside
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  Speaker 7: it is the mechanism for complete K-misson penetration, maintaining a
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  Speaker 7: stable configuration. In effect, it is a floating time machine.
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  Speaker 7: You've tested it? It was tested last week. Professor Milton
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  Speaker 7: Waxman went back 40 years in time and returned. We
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  Speaker 7: cannot afford another test because our energy sources are limited.
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  Speaker 5: Will Waxman accompany me?
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  Speaker 4: Yes. He and one other. Well, Doctor, what is your answer?
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  Speaker 8: All right.
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  Speaker 4: I'll do it.
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  Speaker 5: That afternoon, I was taken aboard the barge in the
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  Speaker 5: East River. I was left alone in the laboratory to
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  Speaker 5: wait for Waxman, the physicist who knew how to operate
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  Speaker 5: the chronosphere.
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  Speaker 4: Waxman, I, um... Who is this? His name is John. John,
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  Speaker 4: this is Dr. Charles Moran. I know the doctor.
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  Speaker 5: I don't believe we've met. In my business, I have
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  Speaker 5: to know a lot of people I've never met. John
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  Speaker 5: is security.
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  Speaker 4: I see.
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  Speaker 5: He's going with us. To see there's no mistake. That's right, doctor.
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  Speaker 5: Very well. I don't suppose murderers can be choosy about
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  Speaker 5: their companions.
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  Speaker 8: Before we go any further, here are some clothes that
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  Speaker 8: will be suitable to the time and place which is
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  Speaker 8: our destination.
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  Speaker 4: Please put them on, Doctor.
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  Speaker 9: While you're changing, I'll give you some background on the subject.
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  Speaker 9: Born Ohm, Germany, 1879. German citizen, religion Jewish. Became a
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  Speaker 9: Swiss citizen after graduation from Zurich Polytechnical Institution. Later migrated
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  Speaker 9: to the United States after Adolf Hitler came to power
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  Speaker 9: with a price set on his head by the Nazis.
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  Speaker 9: Nobel Prize for Physics, 1921. Copley Medal, 1925. Franklin, 1935.
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  Speaker 9: Personal habits... Must.
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  Speaker 5: We do this?
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  Speaker 4: He's only doing his job. Go on, John. Personal habits.
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  Speaker 9: Works in a bare room with only a pencil and paper.
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  Speaker 9: Enjoys sailing, smokes a pipe, never drinks, is a violinist
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  Speaker 9: of constability.
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  Speaker 5: All right, all right, I'm ready.
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  Speaker 6: Good.
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  Speaker 8: Now just strap yourself into the accelerator seat. Ready?
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  Speaker 5: Switch on. All right.
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  Speaker 8: The sensation will be something akin to weightlessness. A disorientation
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  Speaker 8: and feeling of utter detachment. This will last until we
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  Speaker 8: have settled into a new orbital configuration. We will be
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  Speaker 8: able to monitor our time segment on the screen before us.
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  Speaker 8: May I ask our objective?
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 8: The Polytechnicum at Zurich. Graduation ceremony in the year 1900.
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  Speaker 4: So young.
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  Speaker 8: He was already formulating the theory of relativity at this point, Doctor.
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  Speaker 8: We have no choice. It must be clean and thorough.
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  Speaker 4: Are you ready, gentlemen? Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Ready, Professor.
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  Speaker 8: Hold on. We will begin to whirl until we reach
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  Speaker 8: speeds where K-Mason penetration is possible. Now.
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  Speaker 5: Now. The sensation was unlike anything I'd ever experienced. I
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  Speaker 5: felt bodiless, weightless. My consciousness seemed to float free. I
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  Speaker 5: was dimly aware of Waksman at the monitoring controls, but
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  Speaker 5: otherwise I remember no sensation. Later he told me that
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  Speaker 5: it took exactly one half hour to vector in on
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  Speaker 5: the right time and place. That was right after the
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  Speaker 5: whirling stopped.
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  Speaker 4: Marin, are you all right?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I think so. John, I'm all right. Where are we?
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  Speaker 4: According to the monitor, our.
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  Speaker 8: Barge is at a dockside on the Lake Zurich. The
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  Speaker 8: year should be 1900. The time is two o'clock. We
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  Speaker 8: have exactly one hour to accomplish our mission.
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  Speaker 5: Open the hatchway, John.
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  Speaker 4: Well? Fantastic.
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  Speaker 5: A different world.
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  Speaker 8: We can't waste any time. The graduation ceremony is at three.
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  Speaker 8: Now let's go.
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  Speaker 10: Very well.
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  Speaker 5: Just a moment, gentlemen.
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  Speaker 3: Here, take these.
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  Speaker 5: What are they?
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  Speaker 4: Guns. We'll need them.
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  Speaker 5: We stepped ashore. It was strange to see the world
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  Speaker 5: green and happy again... after our red radioactive ruins... Eventually,
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  Speaker 5: we located a policeman who spoke some English. He directed
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  Speaker 5: us to the auditorium of the Zurich Polytechnical Institute where
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  Speaker 5: the graduation ceremony was in progress. Don't attract much attention.
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  Speaker 5: Take a seat in the rear.
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  Speaker 11: And now, it gives me great pleasure to present the
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  Speaker 11: diplomas of graduation to the members of the graduating class
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  Speaker 11: of the Zurich Polytechnic Institute.
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  Speaker 5: First, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Hans Kindler, cum laude. Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: Do you see him, John?
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  Speaker 4: Not yet.
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  Speaker 8: We will have to wait until they call him to
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  Speaker 8: the platform.
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  Speaker 4: Are you ready?
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  Speaker 11: Moran, you're the one who must do this.
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  Speaker 4: Are you ready?
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  Speaker 9: Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I am. I'm ready.
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  Speaker 8: Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Albert Einstein.
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  Speaker 5: That's him. Moran, shoot.
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  Speaker 4: Shoot.
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  Speaker 5: I can't do it.
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  Speaker 4: I can't.
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  Speaker 5: Give me that gun.
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  Speaker 8: Come on.
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  Speaker 11: We've got to get Albert out.
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  Speaker 7: Now hurry.
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  Speaker 4: Another few minutes.
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  Speaker 5: What do you suppose it will be like?
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 5: Our world, the one we left. Without atomic fission, I mean.
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  Speaker 5: We'll soon know. One thing is for sure. There'll be
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  Speaker 5: no mass destruction. The people will be there. The people.
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  Speaker 4: Good Lord, there'll be billions of them.
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  Speaker 5: And the trees, the green shrubs, and the beautiful tall buildings.
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  Speaker 5: He looked very young.
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  Speaker 4: We're vectoring in on our year.
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  Speaker 8: Now hang on when I start the negative penetration.
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  Speaker 6: Brace yourselves.
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  Speaker 8: According to calculations, we should be back in the East
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  Speaker 8: River on the same day we left.
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  Speaker 5: The world will.
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  Speaker 4: Be as it would have been if Einstein had never existed.
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  Speaker 5: Open the hatch, John.
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  Speaker 4: Look at that. The city.
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  Speaker 5: New York is whole again. No ruins. No rubble.
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  Speaker 4: Those buildings are magnificent.
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  Speaker 5: Look at the trees and the parks. Marlon, we've done it.
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  Speaker 5: It was worth it.
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  Speaker 4: We've done it.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: We've done it.
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  Speaker 10: Suddenly from nowhere, an official boat.
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  Speaker 5: A police boat. Suspicious of the barge and our parachronon
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  Speaker 5: penetration equipment, we were arrested by federal agents. The barge
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  Speaker 5: and our time machines confiscated. We were drugged, tortured, questioned interminably.
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  Speaker 5: It went on for what seemed like days and weeks. Finally,
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  Speaker 5: when they decided that they had had every shred of
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  Speaker 5: information we possessed, we were taken before a huge, beetle-browed
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  Speaker 5: man who seemed to be a combination scientist and civil authority.
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  Speaker 5: Sit him down.
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  Speaker 10: Well, Dr. Marin, we seem to have exhausted the possibilities.
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  Speaker 10: Tell me, is there anything you and your companions wish
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  Speaker 10: to tell me before you're disposed of?
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  Speaker 5: Disposed of?
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  Speaker 10: A euphemism for murdered.
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  Speaker 8: Murdered?
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  Speaker 5: Why, what have we done?
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  Speaker 4: You haven't done anything yet.
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  Speaker 10: But you have a thorough knowledge of nuclear physics, fission reaction,
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  Speaker 10: hydrogen bonds, etc.
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  Speaker 5: Lord, you mean you have the knowledge we tried to
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  Speaker 5: keep from you? You got it from us ourselves? Don't
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  Speaker 5: flatter yourself, Doctor. We've known the principles of nuclear reaction.
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  Speaker 4: Ever since Cratchwood.
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  Speaker 5: Cratchwood?
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  Speaker 10: The Brazilian scientist. Discoverer of the equation E equals MC squared.
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  Speaker 5: I see. Then why are you going to destroy us? Because,
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  Speaker 5: my friend, you're too dangerous.
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  Speaker 10: You know too much. Information could lead to our enemies.
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  Speaker 10: Important principles.
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  Speaker 4: Enemies?
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  Speaker 10: Oh, yes, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 5: I forgot.
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  Speaker 4: You have no knowledge of contemporary affairs.
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  Speaker 10: Beneath this building deep in the earth, there is a
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  Speaker 10: thorium pile going.
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  Speaker 4: Thorium? Oh, you 235.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, would be better, yes. Our scientists are working that out.
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  Speaker 10: The problem of separation and so on. It's a highly
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  Speaker 10: secret project, naturally. We call it only by the name
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  Speaker 10: Manhattan Project.
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  Speaker 5: Manhattan? Oh, no, it couldn't be. It's too coincidental. Yet
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  Speaker 5: I see it's true. You're going through exactly the same steps.
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  Speaker 5: In a year, you'll have an atom bomb. Then soon after,
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  Speaker 5: a hydrogen bomb. Then intercontinental missiles, and then.
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  Speaker 10: You seem to have great powers of prophecy, as well
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  Speaker 10: as great scientific knowledge.
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  Speaker 5: My friend. Did you ever hear of a man named Einstein?
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  Speaker 5: Albert Einstein?
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  Speaker 1: Einstein?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 5: I never heard of him. Then the futility of it
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  Speaker 5: struck me. The futility of trying to place the guilt
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  Speaker 5: of all of us on any one man. The futility
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  Speaker 5: of trying to do something worthwhile by evil means. and
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  Speaker 5: finally the futility of trying to murder an idea. As
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  Speaker 5: they led me to the execution cell, where I now wait,
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  Speaker 5: the words of a man whose books were destroyed in
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  Speaker 5: the war rang in my brain. The fault, dear Brutus,
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  Speaker 5: lies not with our stars, but with ourselves.
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  Speaker 4: The End.
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  Speaker 3: Fred Collins again. I'll have another word about.
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  Speaker 4: X minus one in just a moment.
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  Speaker 6: That how you feel, blue and miserable with a deep
• 19:48
  Speaker 6: down cold?
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  Speaker 4: Listen.
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  Speaker 5: Every second someone takes it for the miseries of a cold.
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: Millions more take Bromoquinine. Every second someone takes it for
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: the miseries of a cold.
• 19:59
  Speaker 11: Bromoquinine.
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  Speaker 6: More people have taken more Bromoquinine cold tablets for more
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  Speaker 6: complete relief than any other cold tablet ever sold. You
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  Speaker 6: could use aspirin or cough syrups or nose drops all
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  Speaker 6: day and not get Bromoquinine's relief. Bromoquinine works to relieve
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  Speaker 6: stopped-up nose, body aches, fever, irregularity, the blues, and headache, too. Yes,
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  Speaker 6: more complete relief for even virus colds, for Bromoquinine is
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  Speaker 6: the only cold tablet sold with wonder-working quinine and five
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  Speaker 6: other medicines health-fortified with vitamin C.
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  Speaker 5: Remember... Every second someone takes it.
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  Speaker 6: For Get Bromo Quinine brand cold tablets.
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: You have just heard X-1 presented by the National Broadcasting
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: Company in cooperation with Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, which this
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: month features Kill Me With Kindness by Richard Wilson. What
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: would you do if you found yourself in a place
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: where your every whim was granted?
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  Speaker 5: Don't worry.
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  Speaker 3: You wouldn't be the first to spoil Utopia by attempting.
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  Speaker 4: To improve it.
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  Speaker 3: Galaxy Magazine, on your newsstand today. Tonight, X-1 has brought
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  Speaker 3: you Target One, a story from the pages of Galaxy
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  Speaker 3: written by Frederick Pohl and adapted for radio by George Lefferts.
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  Speaker 3: Featured in our cast were Joseph Bell as Dr. Marin,
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  Speaker 3: Frank Silvera as President Malkov, Dean Almquist as Professor Voxman,
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  Speaker 3: Al Collins as Jom, Guy Repp as the official with
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  Speaker 3: Charles Webster. This is Fred Collins speaking. X-1 was directed
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  Speaker 3: by George Boutsas and is an NBC Radio Network production.
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  Speaker 1: X-1 has concluded with Target 1. Good night and thank
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