"Leo Frankowski - Copernicks Rebellion" - читать интересную книгу автора (Frankowski Leo)

But even this solution could not be acceptable to the Earth's two
hundred warring nations.


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M
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4,
1989



The aging U.S. senator walked carefully into a plush Washington
restaurant and looked slowly around for his dinner date.
"Senator Beinheimer. It's good to meet you, sir."
The senator was momentarily startled by the appearance of the
athletic young man before him. "Well, it's very good to meet you, son.
But just now I have an appointment with an old friend."
"I'm afraid I'm him, sir."
"And I'm afraid you're wrong, sir. I'm looking for Lou von Bork."
"I'm Lou von Bork."
"What! Oh, wait a minute. That's right. I'd heard that you'd taken
over your grandfather's firm. It's just that over the phone you sounded
so much like him that I thought he was visiting his old stomping grounds
again. How is old Lou?"
"Well, according to the postcards, he's still taking his retirement
pretty seriously, sir."
"Raising hell and drinking sour mash on that boat of his, huh?"
 "That's about the size of it, sir."
"And still chasing women, I guess."
"Two of them, if you want to believe the photos."
"Oh, you can believe them, son. Your granddad never was the sort
to let his wick go dry for long." The senator laughed. Then quietly he
said, "It's good to see that some people can retire."
"Well, the country would be in worse shape without you, sir."
"Hmm. Well." The sparkle in the senator's eyes went out. "About
that lunch you promised me..."
Later, in one of the darkened, soundproof booths that made the
Twin Bridges popular, the senator said, "Son, I just can't get over how
much you look like your granddad. Why, you're the spitting image of