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Updated: May 12, 2025
Then they said they had a ship operating in this area, and they'd route it over to Manon after you arrived here." "A ship?" Trigger asked. "I've seen a few of their ships they looked like oversized flying mountains. Camouflage jobs. What they actually are is spacegoing superlaboratories, from what I've heard. This one has a couple of those topnotchers on board, and one of them will take you on.
Since Lobel had become one of the topnotchers with a reputation to maintain, expenses had been climbing by high jumps, but receipts had not kept pace with expenses. There were the vast salaries which even the lesser drawing cards among the stars now demanded and got. There were war taxes, excess profit taxes, amusement taxes.
But the law does not allow them to take positions where there is a great rush of business and general responsibility. They must have the topnotchers for such work." "I had no idea there were so many rules about radio," mused Dick. "There are strict ones, too," replied his companion. "Moreover, the government keeps tabs on all radio people to see they obey the rules.
It's due here in a day or so." Trigger had paled somewhat. "You know," she said, "I feel a little shaken myself now." "I'm not surprised," said the Commissioner. She shook her head. "Well if they're topnotchers, they must know what they're doing." She gave him a smile. "Looks like I'm something extremely unusual! Like a bothersome planetary culture.... Weak joke," she added.
You will never see me, nor any of the other boys over here, laugh at their street services in the future, and if I see anyone else doing that little thing that person is due for a busted head! I haven't seen where they are raising a tenth the money some of the other societies are, but they are the topnotchers of them all as the soldiers' friend, and their handouts always come at the right time.
As I get it, their topnotchers don't spend much time on individual cases. They keep busy with things on the scale of our more bothersome planetary cultures and there are supposed to be only a hundred or so of them in that category. So I was more than a little surprised when the Service informed me finally one of those people was coming to Maccadon to conduct your ninth interview."
So Thad managed to "take a brace," profiting by the sage advice of his comrade; and, as they passed Nick and his two cronies, Hugh remarked as pleasantly as he could: "I've been watching you run to-day, Nick, and I honestly believe you are right up with the topnotchers in the game.
He's one of the few topnotchers I haven't met. He's the spark, the hand on the plunger. The powder is all ready in this land of ours; our job is to keep off the sparks until we can spread the stuff so it will only go puff instead of bang. This man Karlov is bad medicine for democracy. Poor devil!" "Why do you say that?" "Because I'm honestly sorry for them. This fellow Karlov has suffered.
We've had a team of scientists working on a project that's of the greatest importance to national defense. There were four in the team, all topnotchers. Hartson, I'm sure you'll know some, if not all of them, by reputation." Steve removed the ammunition clip from his submachine gun and sighted through the barrel, then let the bolt ram home with a sharp click. "It was my job to guard the project.
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