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for what was ours, he'd turned in his uniform and joined<br />

forces with industry.<br />

"Because, you listen to me boys, if we're not going<br />

to take it, we sure as hell better get in there and buy it,<br />

or let's face it, it won't be long before we end up with a<br />

bunch of Jap gooks running Detroit and a A-rab sliding<br />

his greasy butt down in the Oval Office." Then before<br />

they could properly thank him, Brickhart signed off. Off<br />

into an endless day the former naval commander raced,<br />

across a sea of snow to investigate reports that a<br />

Pakistani painter named Habzi Rabies was defiling the<br />

ALAS-ORE pipeline with modern art.<br />

Back at the Hotel Occidental over too many mixed<br />

drinks, Tom, Dick, and Harry reviewed their reviews.<br />

Their conversation was not preserved, for each of the<br />

three (under the impression that at least one of the other<br />

two had a mike up his sleeve) had a scrambler in his<br />

pocket. As a result of their interference, a senator<br />

seated in the next booth was spared the embarrassment<br />

of rehearing some sybaritic suggestions he was making<br />

to a lovely undercover agent in the Treasury<br />

Department—which institution happened to be

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