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  Speaker 1: Ernest Canoy adapted Richard Wilson's 1955 galaxy science fiction novelette
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  Speaker 1: for radio, bringing a Martian news assignment to NBC's X-1.
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  Speaker 1: Originally heard June 20th, 1957, episode 99, Inside Story, follows
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  Speaker 1: Galactic News Service reporter George Gordon during a slow season
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  Speaker 1: on Mars. Seeking a major scoop, Gordon investigates Nully Fever,
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  Speaker 1: an epidemic whose victims are held in an isolated quarantine colony.
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  Speaker 1: The cast includes Bob Hastings, Leon Janney, Ralph Bell, Richard Hamilton,
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  Speaker 1: Edwin Cooper, and Pat Harsley. Equipped with an experimental invisible suit,
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  Speaker 1: Gordon enters the colony undercover. We now take you back
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  Speaker 1: to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: This is Walter O'Keefe inviting you to listen in on
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  Speaker 2: the Nightline. Tonight, live the incredible life of ages yet
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  Speaker 2: to come in a time that might be a million
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  Speaker 2: years from now on X-1. Now an incredible story.
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  Speaker 3: Of the world beyond.
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  Speaker 4: Countdown for blastoff. X minus 5, 4, 3, 2, X
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  Speaker 4: minus 1, fire. From the far horizons of the unknown
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  Speaker 4: come tales of new dimensions in time and space.
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  Speaker 5: These are stories of the future.
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  Speaker 4: Adventures in which you'll live in a million could be
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  Speaker 4: years on a thousand maybe worlds. The National Broadcasting Company,
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  Speaker 4: in cooperation with Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, presents.
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  Speaker 6: X minus 1.
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  Speaker 4: Tonight, Inside Story by Richard Wilson. But first, hear this.
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  Speaker 4: I know a couple old friends that argue about everything. Politics,
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  Speaker 4: world affairs, even the time of day. One thing they
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  Speaker 4: agree on, though, is Pabst Blue Ribbon Draft Beer. They
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  Speaker 4: say it's the best. And for a change, they're both right.
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  Speaker 4: Pabst Blue Ribbon Draft is a bright, modern-tasting beer that
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  Speaker 4: still has plenty of that old-fashioned beer flavor. Next time
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  Speaker 4: you see that sign that says, Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer
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  Speaker 4: on draft, stop in, order a glass. You'll soon know
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  Speaker 4: why so many folks agree on the bright, modern taste
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  Speaker 4: of Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer of Milwaukee. Now, X-1 and
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  Speaker 4: Inside Story.
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  Speaker 7: Every wire serviceman knows that when the legislature shuts down
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  Speaker 7: for the hot weather, when it gets too warm for
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  Speaker 7: crimes of passion, that's the start of the silly season.
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  Speaker 7: It's the time when the teletype chatters about the largest
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  Speaker 7: pumpkin grown in Sauk County and the dog that found
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  Speaker 7: its way home from Luna Base to the Cocoa Island
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  Speaker 7: rocket port. Well, it was the silly season when I
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  Speaker 7: reported the headquarters Martian sector of the Galactic News Service
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  Speaker 7: at Iopa. I found the Bureau Chief, Scott Warren, looking
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  Speaker 7: sourly at a strip of copy.
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  Speaker 8: GNS Sonala ad lizards.
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  Speaker 9: Lizards?
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  Speaker 8: Lizards.
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  Speaker 9: New light on the longevity span of the Martian sand
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  Speaker 9: lizard was shed today by the Sonala Zoological Society.
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  Speaker 8: Now that is what I call hot news. Flash copy.
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  Speaker 8: Dull day? Following a dull night. Was it like this
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  Speaker 8: in New York when you left?
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  Speaker 7: They had me covering a kitten in a tree in
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  Speaker 7: Gramercy Park.
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  Speaker 9: Ah, I would sell my soul for a nice juicy
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  Speaker 9: cabinet crisis. Or else a little honest graft on a
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  Speaker 9: spaceport contract.
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  Speaker 5: Have you got any leads?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 8: The Garrison Administration of Martian Colonial Affairs is depressingly honest.
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  Speaker 7: When nothing's doing, you can stir it up a little.
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  Speaker 7: You know, rattle the local skeleton in the closet. Fan
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  Speaker 7: the fires a little.
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  Speaker 9: Have you read the Publications Responsibility Act of 1997? You
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  Speaker 9: can get 20 years for what you're thinking.
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  Speaker 5: Look, what's the local canker sore?
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  Speaker 7: What would you like most to get an inside story on?
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  Speaker 5: Something everybody covers up.
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  Speaker 8: Well, there's Droro. Oh, but that's Simon Pure.
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  Speaker 5: What's Droro?
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  Speaker 8: Nully Sanctuary.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, a religious institution?
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  Speaker 10: No.
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  Speaker 9: It's a quarantine set up for null gravity neurocatenosis.
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  Speaker 8: Nully Fever.
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  Speaker 9: It's completely segregated. Nobody's ever gotten a report out of there.
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  Speaker 5: Well, it sounds like a natural.
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  Speaker 9: Look, George, you're new. You don't fool around with Nully
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  Speaker 9: Fever here on Mars. Be like lighting a cigarette in
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  Speaker 9: a powder magazine.
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  Speaker 5: Chief, how would you like an inside.
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  Speaker 7: Story out of Droro? You can't get in. I will
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  Speaker 7: give eight to five. Now, look, who's in charge? The
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  Speaker 7: Ministry of Health, but you can't... Okay, okay. Don't let
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  Speaker 7: the sand lizard take up all the space.
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  Speaker 5: I will get in. It wasn't so easy.
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  Speaker 7: I did fine over at the health ministry until I
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  Speaker 7: mentioned Ruro. And then I might just as well have
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  Speaker 7: had a galloping case of nulli fever myself. I was
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  Speaker 7: referred to the press officer, to the assistant administrator, to
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  Speaker 7: the legal department, the protocol division, and then back to
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  Speaker 7: the press officer.
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  Speaker 5: Finally, I got in to see the commissioner, Dr.
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  Speaker 3: Marks.
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  Speaker 10: Just, uh, just what caused you to raise the question
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  Speaker 10: of Ruro, Mr. Gorton?
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  Speaker 5: Look, Dr.
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  Speaker 7: Marks, what I want is your permission to visit Ruro
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  Speaker 7: and get the inside story.
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  Speaker 8: Visit Ruro?
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  Speaker 10: You mean inside the camp? Yes, that's right. Mr. Gordon,
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  Speaker 10: I am quoting Administrative Code Section 65. Any person found
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  Speaker 10: within the perimeter at Droro is considered to be a
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  Speaker 10: Nully fever victim. Contagion is something like 99% certain at
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  Speaker 10: a range of 100 yards.
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  Speaker 5: What's the treatment?
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  Speaker 8: Droro.
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  Speaker 5: You mean they're just shoved there to rot?
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  Speaker 8: A Nully, Mr.
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  Speaker 10: Gordon, will rot wherever he is. He deteriorates to the
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  Speaker 10: point of total sterility. Take my advice. Forget it. Naturally,
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  Speaker 10: I didn't forget it.
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  Speaker 5: I did more research.
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  Speaker 7: I found out that nulli fever seemed to be a
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  Speaker 7: mutated virus that got that way in the early Earth-Mars
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  Speaker 7: rockets that had inadequate radiological shielding. The symptoms masqueraded as
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  Speaker 7: half a dozen diseases, but the end product was the same.
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  Speaker 5: A physical deterioration that I don't care to go into.
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  Speaker 7: And a psychological lowering to an animal state.
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  Speaker 4: You're listening to Inside Story, tonight's attraction on X-Minus-One. Now,
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  Speaker 4: back to X-1 and Inside Story.
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  Speaker 7: I may be a little reckless following a story, but
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  Speaker 7: believe me, there isn't a bonus big enough to make
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  Speaker 7: a hero out of me. I had no intention of
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  Speaker 7: contracting nulli fever just to provide a byline story for
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  Speaker 7: old GNS. I had stumbled onto something, and I was
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  Speaker 7: wearing it when I dropped into the bureau and asked Scott.
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  Speaker 5: If he noticed anything different about me.
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  Speaker 8: You're putting on a little weight?
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  Speaker 6: No, no.
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  Speaker 5: Guess again.
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  Speaker 8: Your pants aren't hanging right. Your shirt's all bunched up.
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  Speaker 7: That's because I am wearing the latest fashion, an invisible suit.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, goodbye. Try another one.
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  Speaker 5: Look, I'm not kidding. It's heatproof and airtight.
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  Speaker 7: They developed it over at Mars Electronics for spacesuit use.
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  Speaker 7: You mean you're all buttoned up? Well, how do I
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  Speaker 7: hear you?
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  Speaker 5: Short wave from a miniaturized dental mic. It's hanging on
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  Speaker 5: a front tooth, see?
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  Speaker 8: You're not kidding. Well, how come it's invisible?
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  Speaker 5: Beats me.
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  Speaker 7: Something to do with a non-refractive coating. You need that
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  Speaker 7: for dark side work on airless satellites. I got an
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  Speaker 7: experimental model from a PRO at ME.
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  Speaker 8: What's it good for?
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  Speaker 7: Outside of spaceship work, not much. Except it is my
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  Speaker 7: ticket to Druro.
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  Speaker 8: Now, wait a minute.
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  Speaker 5: Don't you get it, Chief. I can't be infected, not
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  Speaker 5: with this suit on. It's absolutely airtight. Don't worry, I'll
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  Speaker 5: be safe. Wrapped in plaster film like chewing gum.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, but that won't get you past the perimeter into
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  Speaker 9: the Nully camp.
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  Speaker 5: Just leave that to me. I've got that figured out, too.
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  Speaker 7: I picked up a sand cat out to the town
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  Speaker 7: of Droro and waited for two days. There was a
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  Speaker 7: shipment of nullies, the last of the senala roundup due
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  Speaker 7: at the camp. Out of respect to public opinion, they
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  Speaker 7: dumped nullies at night, which suited me fine.
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  Speaker 3: Ah! Ah!
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  Speaker 5: Ah!
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  Speaker 3: Ah!
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  Speaker 7: About a hundred nullies were going over the newcomers like
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  Speaker 7: kangaroo caught in a frontier jail.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think anybody actually got killed, but they almost.
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  Speaker 7: Tore the new bunch to pieces grabbing cigarettes jacked buttons, shoes, anything.
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  Speaker 7: And then, like it's not the old timers, would fight
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  Speaker 7: each other for it. The whole thing was over at dawn,
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  Speaker 7: and I could get a look around the camp. There
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  Speaker 7: were pre-fab huts and some trees. I started over to
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  Speaker 7: one of the huts.
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  Speaker 5: My hut! Take it easy, friend. I'm not going to
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  Speaker 5: hurt you.
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  Speaker 8: Look!
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  Speaker 5: I'm your friend.
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  Speaker 8: Sure.
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  Speaker 5: You think you're going to steal my ration, huh?
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  Speaker 8: I'll kill you first.
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  Speaker 5: How long have you been here?
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  Speaker 7: Two years.
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  Speaker 5: Got a cigarette? Here. No, no, don't grab. I'll toss
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  Speaker 5: you one. Don't you make a move towards me. Sure, sure, sure.
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  Speaker 7: What were you before you got in here?
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  Speaker 4: Huh?
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  Speaker 5: A teacher.
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  Speaker 11: An Iopa technical. I fixed them before they got me.
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  Speaker 11: I cut down ten medics with a power drill.
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  Speaker 5: When is breakfast, friend?
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  Speaker 11: You go plenty hungry. Ration isn't till tomorrow. You think
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  Speaker 11: that was some fight last night? Why don't you see
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  Speaker 11: ration drop? Last time somebody tried to beat me to
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  Speaker 11: a ration case, I fixed her.
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  Speaker 5: Never mind, never mind. Don't tell me about it. Hey,
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  Speaker 5: what's that over there? Up the hill. Looks like a
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  Speaker 5: regular fortress. What are you trying to do? Hurt me?
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  Speaker 10: No.
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  Speaker 7: No, I just asked you what goes on up there.
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  Speaker 5: Those other huts inside that barricade. You spying for them?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, sure.
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  Speaker 5: You're spying for them, you dirty... You!
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  Speaker 3: You!
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  Speaker 5: You!
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  Speaker 7: It isn't easy to get used to dodging nasty backhand
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  Speaker 7: punches that came out of the blue and were meant
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  Speaker 7: to kill, if possible. I got my arm up in
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  Speaker 7: time to catch about half the force, and the man
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  Speaker 7: ran off with my pack of cigarettes. But there was
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  Speaker 7: something up that hill worth looking into. A barricaded section
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  Speaker 7: set apart from the rest. So I started up.
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  Speaker 5: When I hit the woods, I stopped just three feet
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  Speaker 5: short of a ten-foot spear.
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  Speaker 3: All right, you.
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  Speaker 8: Get back down the hill.
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  Speaker 5: Now, take it easy, will you? What's going on up here?
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  Speaker 8: Go on, get moving.
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  Speaker 3: I've got orders to kill if I have to.
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  Speaker 5: You don't understand. I just want to find out.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, sure you do.
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  Speaker 3: They always do. Every time there's a new batch, there's
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  Speaker 3: a few still smart enough to plan together, and they
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  Speaker 3: come up here spying.
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  Speaker 5: Spying on what? Look, I'm a newspaper.
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  Speaker 7: I'll count three, and then you get it in the belly.
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  Speaker 7: No hero I, I got before he reached one and
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  Speaker 7: a half. That night, I managed to talk to the
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  Speaker 7: ex-teacher without either of us slugging the other.
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  Speaker 5: I asked him about the guard on the hill.
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  Speaker 11: They get all the best rations. They make us give
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  Speaker 11: up our food or they come kill us. They've got
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  Speaker 11: spears and knives.
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  Speaker 5: You mean there's a gang up there living off the
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  Speaker 5: rest of you? Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 11: I killed one of them once. Caught him from behind
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  Speaker 11: with a rock.
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  Speaker 5: Ha, ha, ha, ha.
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  Speaker 11: They came down and killed ten of us. Didn't get me, though. Funny, huh?
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  Speaker 5: I got the picture.
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  Speaker 7: It's been the same every time men are herded together
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  Speaker 7: like animals. Andersonville, Buchenwald, and Dachau. The Alaskan camps in
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  Speaker 7: the 70s are now rural. The strong live off the others,
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  Speaker 7: a kind of racketeering in spades. Grab the best of everything,
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  Speaker 7: live as rich as you can, and don't worry how
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  Speaker 7: many you leave to starve to death.
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  Speaker 5: We're going to get them, though, tonight.
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  Speaker 8: Got rocks together and clubs.
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  Speaker 5: Go up there and we'll get them.
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  Speaker 8: You come.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't have much choice.
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  Speaker 6: They would have torn me apart.
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  Speaker 7: About 10 o'clock at night, the mob gathered at the
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  Speaker 7: foot of the hill. Every once in a while, they'd
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  Speaker 7: swipe at each other with a club or a rock,
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  Speaker 7: but mostly they shouted up at the hill.
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  Speaker 5: And then suddenly, without any signal, they charged. It was
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  Speaker 5: kind of sick.
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  Speaker 7: Men and women, heaven knows what they were before, teachers, mothers, anything,
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  Speaker 7: screaming and running up that hill. And then the defenders
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  Speaker 7: cut loose. There were torches so I could see, rocks
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  Speaker 7: rolled down, boiling water, spears, arrows, enough to cut down
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  Speaker 7: that unarmed mob. I was hiding behind a tree now.
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  Speaker 8: Sick.
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  Speaker 5: Good and sick. When it happened... Hold on, bud.
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  Speaker 8: I'm going to pull this arrow out. Here it goes.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 5: Where am I?
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  Speaker 3: Up the hill. That's where you wanted to go, isn't it?
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  Speaker 8: But how did... We dragged you up here.
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  Speaker 5: Herb, get some bandages up here. You're... You're one of them,
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  Speaker 5: aren't you?
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  Speaker 3: One of who?
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  Speaker 5: The big shots, the kingpins, gangsters.
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  Speaker 8: You didn't get hit in the head, did you?
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  Speaker 5: It's too bad they didn't wipe you out up here.
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  Speaker 5: It's tough enough living in a place like this, but
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  Speaker 5: to prey on the weak ones.
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  Speaker 8: Look, fella, I think maybe you got the wrong idea.
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  Speaker 5: Thank heaven I'm safe from this kind of.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I wondered when you'd notice. That fancy suit of
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  Speaker 8: yours got torn when.
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  Speaker 3: The arrow hit.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, no. No.
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  Speaker 3: early fever that's why we hauled you up here we
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  Speaker 3: spotted something funny about you a kettle of boiling water
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  Speaker 3: splashed on you you didn't even notice who are.
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  Speaker 5: You george gordon galactic news service.
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  Speaker 3: A newsman listen does anybody know you're in here yeah
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  Speaker 3: maybe there's a chance can you tell them they got
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  Speaker 3: to let us out tell them what it's like up
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  Speaker 3: here make them understand we write messages for the ration
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  Speaker 3: planes and they ignore them You can't get close enough
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  Speaker 3: to the guards to shout.
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  Speaker 8: They shoot you down.
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  Speaker 5: They've got to let us out. Oh, sure, sure. After
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  Speaker 5: what I've seen, that's the last thing I do.
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  Speaker 7: Try to con somebody into letting this loose on the population.
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  Speaker 5: I've seen enough nullies.
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  Speaker 7: Even if I have to spend the rest of my
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  Speaker 7: life in this camp, I don't want to be responsible
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  Speaker 7: for making more.
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  Speaker 8: Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 5: You don't get it. We're not nullies up here.
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  Speaker 10: What?
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  Speaker 5: Nobody gets in the camp who isn't a nullie.
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  Speaker 8: That's right.
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  Speaker 5: We all had it when we came in, but not anymore.
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  Speaker 5: Up here, we're cured. You're lying.
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  Speaker 8: You've got to believe me.
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  Speaker 3: We've been living up here for four years, keeping guard,
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  Speaker 3: trying to live like human beings in the middle of
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  Speaker 3: those animals down there, losing maybe three or four a week.
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  Speaker 5: Fighting them off.
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  Speaker 7: You know you're more dangerous than they are down there
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  Speaker 7: because somehow you've kept some intelligence enough to want revenge
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  Speaker 7: on the rest of the world by infecting them.
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  Speaker 5: No, no, you've got to believe me.
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  Speaker 8: We're cured.
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  Speaker 3: Nully fever can be cured somehow because we've done it.
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  Speaker 8: About a hundred of us More.
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  Speaker 5: Now with the babies. The what?
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  Speaker 8: Babies. Normal, healthy babies.
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  Speaker 5: He pointed across the clearing to another hut. And I
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  Speaker 5: saw it.
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  Speaker 6: A woman about 30.
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  Speaker 5: Sitting on the doorsteps.
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  Speaker 6: Nursing a baby.
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  Speaker 3: An infant.
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  Speaker 5: And I heard the words of.
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  Speaker 6: The commissioner echoing in my ear.
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  Speaker 5: And of course, total sterility. These weren't nullies.
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  Speaker 6: Not anymore.
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  Speaker 5: If they could have babies, they must be cured. Living
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  Speaker 5: as a desperate.
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  Speaker 6: Island in a mad world of violence. Well, you know
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  Speaker 6: the rest of it.
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  Speaker 5: You ought to.
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  Speaker 7: It was carried under my byline in every fact sheet
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  Speaker 7: on three planets. They had a microtechnician up the hill
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  Speaker 7: who gimmicked my miniature microphone with a hairpin and a
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  Speaker 7: piece of quartz crystal, so I cut in on the
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  Speaker 7: main traffic beam between Sinaloa and Iopa. I had Scott
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  Speaker 7: Warren at Government House in 15 minutes, threatening to blow
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  Speaker 7: the lid off the whole colonial government.
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  Speaker 5: The babies did it.
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  Speaker 7: Aerial photographs with micro enlargement. They had pictures of those
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  Speaker 7: babies on the wire the next day. Red tape held
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  Speaker 7: it up a week. But finally, a hundred cured ex-Nullies
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  Speaker 7: and one reporter were out of Druro at Iopa General
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  Speaker 7: Hospital for checks.
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  Speaker 6: They found it.
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  Speaker 5: Nully fever is psychosomatic.
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  Speaker 7: You take somebody strong enough to fight for survival, give
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  Speaker 7: him incentive, and he'll lick it by himself. No miracle
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  Speaker 7: drugs needed. It starts with a virus, all right. But
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  Speaker 7: it ends with psychotherapy.
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  Speaker 5: A good dose of willpower. I got back to work
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  Speaker 5: in a month.
• 18:33
  Speaker 9: Welcome back, George. The teletype's dead as ever. Back to
• 18:37
  Speaker 9: the longevity of the Martian sand lizard.
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: True old Nully story played out?
• 18:42
  Speaker 8: Dead as last week's herring.
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: Well, what else is new?
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  Speaker 7: Maybe we can find another skeleton in the closet. How
• 18:50
  Speaker 7: about life on the Martian moons? Now, that ought to
• 18:53
  Speaker 7: be good for a headline.
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  Speaker 5: Fred Collins again.
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  Speaker 4: And I'll have a word for you about next week's
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  Speaker 4: X-1 in a moment.
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  Speaker 8: Hey, Molly.
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  Speaker 11: It's me.
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  Speaker 9: Where are you?
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  Speaker 5: Right here, McGee.
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  Speaker 8: What's the matter?
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  Speaker 5: Are you doing anything? Am I doing anything?
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  Speaker 12: I've got a towel wrapped around my head, a broom
• 19:32
  Speaker 12: in one hand, a bucket of soap and water in
• 19:34
  Speaker 12: the other, and the kitchen curtain's under my arm, and
• 19:36
  Speaker 12: you ask me if I'm doing anything. Sure, I'm vacationing
• 19:40
  Speaker 12: in Florida.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 5: Here, Molly, let me take this down.
• 19:43
  Speaker 8: What are you doing?
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: Now, just sit down. Sit down right here. Well, you're sweet, McGee,
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: but I've got... You can go back to work in
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: a minute. I've got something big to do.
• 19:50
  Speaker 8: To tell you. You know, something really big. What have
• 19:52
  Speaker 8: you gone and done?
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: We're going to be on monitors. Monitors?
• 19:55
  Speaker 9: NBC's fascinating, motivating, merry-making, scintillating, never-veserating weekend radio service.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, that monitor.
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  Speaker 8: Of course.
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  Speaker 5: And where's Donald McGee? When? This weekend and every weekend.
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: What do you say to that? Oh, that's wonderful, McGee.
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: So don't make any plans, folks. We'll be seeing you
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: this weekend, all weekend.
• 20:13
  Speaker 12: On Monitor.
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: And now a word about next week's story. The Category
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: Inventors by Arthur Sellings on X-Minus-One. You have just heard
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: X-1 presented by the National Broadcasting Company in cooperation with
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, which this month features Time Waits
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: for Winthrop by William Tenn. Winthrop was literally the most
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: stubborn and selfish man in 500 years.
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: How could they.
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: Convince him not to strand them in this society of
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: shriek fields and panic stadiums? Galaxy Magazine, on your newsstand today. Tonight,
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: X-1 has brought you Inside Story, a story from the
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: pages of Galaxy written by Richard Wilson and adapted for
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: radio by Ernest Canoy. Featured in our cast were Bob Hastings,
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: Leon Janney, Ralph Bell, Richard Hamilton, Edwin Cooper, and Pat Hosley.
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: This is Fred Collins. X-1 was directed by Daniel Sutter
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: and is an NBC Radio Network production. There's excitement in
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: the air at night, and Nightline brings it to you.
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: Hear Nightline with Walter O'Keefe, next on most of these
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: NBC stations.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: X-1's inside story, originally heard June 20th, 1957, concludes our program.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Follow X-1 for more classic broadcasts.