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"Steve," she began, "I was in charge of the psychograph tests taken of all the workers at the projectile operation after the first mishap " "How did you know about the second?" Strong interrupted quickly, remembering Connel's admonition about keeping the incident quiet.
But my point is this: Since a cadet unit is assembled only after careful study of their individual psychograph personality charts and is passed and failed as a unit, even though a boy like Cadet Astro might make a failing grade, his unit mates, Cadets Manning and Corbett, can pull him through by making higher passing marks.
Stinging drops of sweat blurred his vision but he managed to smile. "Now try your psychograph. Just try it. Here's what you'll read: conditioned against physical torture. Brain waves lack stable pattern. History inconsistent. Standard drug susceptibility predicted negative. Then decide, friends, if I'm bluffing." Candar growled, "Do as he says." The test was run. They looked at the results.
"Why were you detained at the psychograph tests this morning?" demanded Barret. "None of your business!" shouted Troy. "I was doing my job. That's all." "I'll bet," snapped Barret. "Professor, here is your sabotage agent. Who are you working for, Troy?" "None of your business," stammered Troy, seemingly confused. "I mean, I'm not working for anyone." "There! You see, Professor!" shouted Barret.
But, if each of these bare facts could be parted from the others and intelligently presented, what would it avail with the reader who has never seen the originals of my psychograph? It is from some such question, and not from want of a hospitable will, that I hesitate to ask him to go with me on a golden morning of March and spend it in the Villa Medici on the Pincian Hill.
Report to the Administration Building in one hour. You're going to do all your space jockeying in a chair from now on!" For the next week, the three Space Cadets spent every waking hour in the Solar Council Administration Center, interviewing applicants who had passed their psychograph personality tests. Endlessly, from early morning until late at night, they questioned the eager applicants.
I have been wondering whether he could profitably ask of me some record of my experiences in the official and scientific company with which I was honored that day at the Campidoglio; but I should have to offer him again a sort of composite psychograph of objects printed one upon another and hardly separable in their succession.
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