Аннотация
Eternity Lost
by Clifford D. Simak
Chairman Leonard: You mean you are afraid it might become a political football?
Mr. Reeves: The situation, as I see it, calls for well defined safeguards which would prevent continuation of life from falling under the patronage of political parties or other groups in power.
Mr. Reeves: Not only that, sir, I am afraid that political parties might use it to continue beyond normal usefulness the lives of certain so-called elder statesmen who are needed by the party to maintain prestige and dignity in the public eye.
From the Records of a hearing before the science subcommittee of the public policy committee of the World House of Representatives. * * *Senator Homer Leonard’s visitors had something on their minds. They fidgeted mentally as they sat in the senator’s office and drank the senator’s good whiskey. They talked, quite importantly, as was their wont, but they talked around the thing th...
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