Mystery Theater - The Last Orbit

A suspense series featuring mysterious tales with a twist, ranging from psychological thrillers to eerie supernatural encounters. Each episode is crafted for maximum tension.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
The CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents Coming.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Welcome. I'm e. G.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
Marshall.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
Jule Van wrote his classic fantasy From the Earth to
the Moon in eighteen sixty five.

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It was the era of the horse and buggy, and
Baron's readers agreed space travel must be surely the ultimate trip.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Today, however, we are told that.

Speaker 5 (00:43):
The Space Shuttle will make.

Speaker 4 (00:45):
Orbital flight as commonplace as a bus ride or the
commuter express, and yet we still look to the stars
for a glimpse of the unusual, the mysterious, the other worldly.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
Thrown her from Argan, Come on, Miracts, gone on long enough,
I'm placing you under arrest.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
I'm sorry, but I cannot allow that into the airlock rating.

Speaker 6 (01:06):
I warn your test and you will force.

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Me to employ the Argonian line block.

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But you just keep your hands at your side.

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Mind block does not require content.

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Inside, but honestly drama.

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The Last Orbits was.

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Written especially for the Mystery Theater by Douglas Dempsey and
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An astronaut, like an athlete, is doomed to a short career.

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Then he's put out the pasture forner.

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Astronauts do, of course have job opportunities, corporate executive, TV personality,
even congressmen.

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But the transition is.

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Hard once adventure has been tasted, a crash diet of
daily routine, star of the spirits, even kill a man.
Tonight we joined Commander Emmett Rockwell in the not too
distant future, a senior astronaut and about to retire. He's
attending a farewell party and wondering exactly how to make

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his exit, not just.

Speaker 3 (04:17):
From the party but from his career.

Speaker 5 (04:21):
Wally, how long do you think this weight is gonna last?

Speaker 3 (04:23):
Ye, it's up to you have it.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
The party is in your honor. I think people who
get tired looking the light of blue Mark Plea say
it's not every day America's biggest.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
Space hero entire. I rub it in something, bob you in?

Speaker 1 (04:38):
Yeah, just one question, WILLI If a hero retires, does
he stay at hero or does he revert to ordinary mortal?

Speaker 3 (04:45):
Hey, don't be a gloomy.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
He's be happy for me.

Speaker 5 (04:49):
After I've write tomorrow, i'll be a full commander.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
And you'll be able to do whatever you want. And
let's uh just get what you're tired.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
Now.

Speaker 5 (04:59):
We got a big day tomorrow. I'll find a Murray
and speed.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
This thing up.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
I easy to get your speech ready. Speak speech? She
I forgot all. I'll be back in a minute. Speech speech,
I said. It makes some notes.

Speaker 6 (05:12):
Talking to the soul commander.

Speaker 7 (05:17):
What good evening, emmitts.

Speaker 3 (05:23):
You a mystery woman. I've caught your eyes feeling my
way four or five times tonight.

Speaker 7 (05:29):
Don't you know me?

Speaker 3 (05:30):
Emmett?

Speaker 1 (05:30):
Oh, I don't think saw you with the Space Agency.
Now the press is somebody's.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
Wife, none of the above.

Speaker 6 (05:37):
I thought you might remember my face.

Speaker 3 (05:40):
What if i'd seen it before? I remember al wife.

Speaker 7 (05:44):
An old friend I've come to collect on a commis
a commis that's right. We made a deal, emmittt a
long time ago before are you.

Speaker 5 (05:58):
Where's your id bach.

Speaker 3 (06:00):
Or how'd you get past security?

Speaker 6 (06:01):
I come and go as I please.

Speaker 3 (06:03):
Hey, just a minute, that's my co pilot. We'll talk again,
nath Now wait do you hold out?

Speaker 6 (06:09):
All right?

Speaker 3 (06:09):
All said? Now mine gets his little intro and then
your on what you do? Who? I didn't see him straight.
I'd made some kind of a honisty. Probably one of
your fans there, always little melodramatic.

Speaker 5 (06:25):
Now I get to talk together.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
You're on next.

Speaker 3 (06:27):
Oh yeah, right, let's go.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
Edes and gents work the main event of the evening.
At my right sits America's finest, most famous and oh
this deestin all like go easy. Every pilots tomorrow's Space
Shuttle mission. He will be retiring from ACW duty, so let's.

Speaker 3 (06:58):
Give him a big send off. Candre emit real well,
please please. I am not the hero you make me
out to be.

Speaker 4 (07:10):
My job is simple, really, I'm just a capsule jockey.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
Well think about it. The tech crew builds them, the
ground crew flies them.

Speaker 5 (07:19):
All I do is write 'em.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
It's you people that make me look good.

Speaker 6 (07:23):
It's me, emmett. I'm the one who makes you look good.

Speaker 3 (07:28):
What image? Something wrong? You know?

Speaker 1 (07:33):
I I uh, I was saying, what a great support
crew you've fin Now you're the real heroes.

Speaker 3 (07:40):
Thank you all. That was a perfect little speech.

Speaker 5 (07:49):
Emitt uh oh, yeah, yeah they're they're a great group.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
You are indeed when you say we head back to
the corners and get a nice long pre flight sleep, are.

Speaker 3 (07:59):
You going, I'm gonna hang around about you were in
a big rush. Now you want to mingle? No going exactly?
I'd like to find that rot.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
Oh, I get it available.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
Former astronaut bachelor in need of companion. I'm okay, okay,
I just don't forget to show up in the morning.

Speaker 3 (08:18):
Y'all be there.

Speaker 7 (08:21):
I think it's time we talked about ideal can under you?

Speaker 3 (08:26):
Look, I want some answers this kid, who are you
old acquaintons?

Speaker 6 (08:30):
Maybe this will help you remember what.

Speaker 3 (08:33):
Are you doing?

Speaker 7 (08:35):
Just touching your temper quick that then the embalast no
one is watching als. Let go every Yes, we'll put
you in touch if you're deepest.

Speaker 3 (08:49):
Married memories, It's.

Speaker 5 (08:54):
Exactly.

Speaker 7 (08:54):
Energy is showing between us.

Speaker 6 (08:59):
What do you feel being.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
Pulled toward you?

Speaker 6 (09:05):
I can like you.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
I feel a connection between us, like our minds a
lot together. I had this feeling before on my first mission.

Speaker 6 (09:19):
Good, I do remember. That's enough.

Speaker 3 (09:26):
Hey, that's some trick.

Speaker 6 (09:28):
It's no trick.

Speaker 7 (09:30):
Now we have an arrangement, Commander rock Roll, and it
will become effective after tomorrow.

Speaker 5 (09:35):
Tomorrow I'll be in orbit, in space.

Speaker 6 (09:37):
Of course, I will watch over your mission.

Speaker 3 (09:40):
Then you will keep your part of our bargain watch
over my mission. What are you trying to feed me?
You are my guardian? Angel?

Speaker 7 (09:50):
Guardian hmmm, you could say that, but I'm no angel.

Speaker 5 (09:57):
Wait a minute, they come back here?

Speaker 3 (10:00):
Excuse me? Did you see your tall redhead rush out
of here? She was wearing a tight green jumps and
are you positive didn't see anyone?

Speaker 7 (10:07):
You are recommended.

Speaker 3 (10:11):
After all these years. It's starting.

Speaker 6 (10:21):
Morning, am it?

Speaker 3 (10:22):
Hey? Wally has breakfast?

Speaker 5 (10:24):
Well, I get so hungry.

Speaker 3 (10:25):
Right before I lift off. I'll eat anything, even this
stuffy asked up for the flight. Well, I didn't sleep
much last night. What's burging?

Speaker 6 (10:34):
Nothing?

Speaker 3 (10:34):
Really, I'm just anxious, a veteran like you.

Speaker 5 (10:37):
Come on, you don't get the jity.

Speaker 3 (10:39):
No, no, no, it's not that. What is it. It's her,
that redhead, redhead.

Speaker 6 (10:44):
Ah from the party.

Speaker 5 (10:45):
Yeah, yeah, I talked to her again after you left.

Speaker 3 (10:49):
She did a whole number.

Speaker 1 (10:50):
Okay, he's telling me I made some kind of a
deal with her and now my time is up. She's
uh come to collect real profit.

Speaker 3 (11:00):
The doom bit, am it? You keep threading over your retirement,
you'll end up permanently retired. Stress can kill you.

Speaker 1 (11:07):
Know, cause a breakdown, hallucinations, the too sure. Why Look,
no one saw that redhead except me. You think you imagined, Well,
something like this did happen before.

Speaker 5 (11:19):
I had a kind of a vision.

Speaker 9 (11:23):
It was not in your record.

Speaker 3 (11:24):
Well I never reported it. It happened eighteen years ago
during my first space flight. Oh wow, there you go,
and that makes sense. First flight jitters, last flight jitter?

Speaker 5 (11:33):
Is it the same reaction you think?

Speaker 3 (11:34):
So?

Speaker 5 (11:34):
Yeah, just fight it off.

Speaker 3 (11:37):
By the time we get to the large bed, you'll
be fine. I hope you're right there she is Space
Shuttle Lexington One more.

Speaker 4 (11:52):
Time, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (11:53):
Yeah? I sure logged a lot of miles in that baby.
Good morning, welcome to launch terrified.

Speaker 2 (11:59):
Hey what is this?

Speaker 3 (12:00):
The mission controller in person at the launch site. Just
wanted to see y'all Emmitt.

Speaker 5 (12:04):
Well from pitt SAT Murray, No cheers, I'll be back
and yeah.

Speaker 3 (12:08):
Here's the elevator.

Speaker 5 (12:10):
Let's go, ges. You've both been briefed on the mission.

Speaker 1 (12:17):
Who needs briefing. We've flown the same mission every month
for two years. You've seen one satellite salvage.

Speaker 6 (12:23):
You seeing them all right?

Speaker 1 (12:23):
Am well, it's hardly my idea of a glamorous final mission.

Speaker 5 (12:27):
Low spine, kailing engager, low.

Speaker 3 (12:29):
Chance for heroic. I know that's your Dialamite, but try
not to pull any stunts this trip. Okay, shut eh?
This is it a level of twenty.

Speaker 5 (12:42):
Boy.

Speaker 3 (12:43):
The view from up here is always particular. What day
it's so clear you can see Jacksonville, you know.

Speaker 5 (12:50):
Whenever I'm up here, I feel it.

Speaker 3 (12:54):
Look looked down there. It's her. She's here right at
the base of the launch tower, isn't it. Murray, help me?
What happened? Em it's frozen up. Give me a hand
and get him back away from the rating. Am it?

Speaker 2 (13:10):
Faith and it?

Speaker 3 (13:11):
Antony? I'm okay?

Speaker 2 (13:14):
What happened? Oh?

Speaker 3 (13:16):
I had a sudden flash of vertigo.

Speaker 1 (13:20):
Imagine an astronaut afraid of heightspe Now listen, if you're not.

Speaker 5 (13:24):
Well, I'll aboord this mission right here and now.

Speaker 3 (13:27):
No, no, don't worry.

Speaker 5 (13:28):
He's on the board.

Speaker 3 (13:29):
I'm fine, I just I just need to sit down
with Wally. Help him on board the ship. Just climb
in your seat and it did you see your Wally?

Speaker 6 (13:40):
And shut up.

Speaker 3 (13:41):
I've got a smooth Murray out. He'll scrub the lift off.

Speaker 6 (13:44):
I'll talk to you later.

Speaker 5 (13:45):
Wally, come out here.

Speaker 6 (13:47):
He's all right now, Murray, What the heck is going
on here?

Speaker 3 (13:51):
It's just nerves. It's his last flight. He's a little jumpy.
You sure that's all it is. He'll be fine, and
once we get into orbit he'll he'll unline.

Speaker 6 (13:59):
You'll better be aren't sure that.

Speaker 2 (14:02):
All person else before?

Speaker 3 (14:05):
Really keep an eye on him. Don't let him do
anything down he sir, don't worry. But you didn't see
her at all, Wally. At Let's be logical. This is
a high security area.

Speaker 6 (14:26):
How could anyone even get in?

Speaker 3 (14:28):
I don't know. I don't know. I only know that
what I saw is real, Wally.

Speaker 1 (14:35):
I can kill her presence somewhere sometime in my past.
I've seen her before, and now she's come after me.

Speaker 3 (14:44):
For what purpose? I can't imagine.

Speaker 4 (14:54):
A beautiful woman of unknown origin, flaming red hair, fabulous
and a penchant for the mysterious, too good to be true. Remember,
one man's dream can be another man's nightmare. For Commander
Emmitt Rockwell, retiring astronaut, this woman is.

Speaker 3 (15:14):
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insists he's being pursued by.

Speaker 3 (17:39):
A beautiful woman.

Speaker 9 (17:41):
His co pilot, Wally.

Speaker 4 (17:42):
Bruger, thinks she's a phantom, a trick of the mind.

Speaker 2 (17:46):
We all have.

Speaker 4 (17:46):
Secret fears, our own inner demons. The question is should
we flee from such demons or should we confront our
ultimate fears head on. For Emmett, this is a new experience.
Until now he has neglected his inner self, focusing his
attention instead on the external world and his busy career

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are over.

Speaker 3 (18:11):
The stable while he locked the controls into the computer.

Speaker 5 (18:14):
Will do Emmitt?

Speaker 3 (18:16):
Computer is locked?

Speaker 5 (18:19):
Hey, I'm going the controls.

Speaker 3 (18:21):
Enjoy the to now looks so peaceful from up here.
Better enjoy it. This is your last look at her
from miss Angel. I'm lucky to get the last look
the way I carried on down there, and thanks Wally
for covering for me.

Speaker 5 (18:37):
Don't mention it back to tell you though, I don't
buy your theory.

Speaker 3 (18:42):
My theory, but it was a common stress reaction, the
case of nerves. He's the only expiration that makes sense.

Speaker 2 (18:48):
Now.

Speaker 3 (18:48):
The fact remains.

Speaker 1 (18:49):
I saw that woman standing at the base of the
launch tower in broad daylight.

Speaker 3 (18:53):
I was wide awake and completely calm. She was real, am.

Speaker 6 (18:56):
Let me explain.

Speaker 3 (18:58):
Now, something's bothering your mind. You're subconscious gives the problem
a name and a face. When you're asleep, it's called
a dreamer, a nightmare. When you're awake, it's an hallucinance. Wally,
I can feel her presence. Now, how do you explain that?

Speaker 6 (19:15):
Man?

Speaker 3 (19:15):
You are really spooked.

Speaker 5 (19:17):
That's the radio.

Speaker 3 (19:18):
Murray's gonna want to status report. I'm you're okay to gosh, Sure,
I'm okay to talk now, this is subtle two seven
acknowledging transmission.

Speaker 9 (19:27):
Come in two seven Missus Mission control. Murray, here, beautiful launch, Everything.

Speaker 3 (19:34):
Are gay, all systems ago, nothing to report.

Speaker 6 (19:37):
Good.

Speaker 9 (19:38):
You should run the voer that satellite in about five hours.
Check one minor item a cruise weight figures on takeoff. Sure,
you guys are a little heavy.

Speaker 1 (19:49):
We're overweight, Yeah, by about one hundred and thirty pounds
to be precise.

Speaker 3 (19:53):
Well that's a new one. Now maybe the last crew
left some equipment on board. You might check out the story.

Speaker 9 (20:00):
We'll do, but as should k am it do we
have our own theory down here?

Speaker 5 (20:07):
Oh now what's your theory, Murray?

Speaker 9 (20:10):
Well, the guys figure you've got a girl aboard to
uh to celebrate your last flight.

Speaker 3 (20:20):
Carol, all right, you still.

Speaker 4 (20:24):
Are Captain Wally brewed here, Well, we'll check it out, Murray,
and get back to your.

Speaker 9 (20:30):
Two seven transmission concluded.

Speaker 3 (20:34):
Now tell me that was my nervous reaction. Murray makes
a little joke, and you go. Hear what he said?

Speaker 5 (20:40):
A girl?

Speaker 9 (20:41):
Now what I am?

Speaker 3 (20:41):
That stamp out of it?

Speaker 6 (20:43):
We're thousands of.

Speaker 3 (20:44):
Miles away in space. We are alone looking here.

Speaker 5 (20:56):
Or here? Well, that's it, Wally.

Speaker 3 (21:00):
I'd gone through every storage compartment.

Speaker 5 (21:01):
We've got nothing in the cargo.

Speaker 3 (21:04):
How could we miss one hundred and thirty pounds of equipment?
Maybe Murray this calculator? All right, let's try to hear allow.

Speaker 6 (21:11):
I am at the only.

Speaker 3 (21:12):
Place we haven't looked for.

Speaker 6 (21:13):
This is a cubicle.

Speaker 1 (21:14):
It doesn't have any lockers, just a seat. Oh, com
you don't give me a hand with a hatch? Why
this is a waste of effort.

Speaker 3 (21:23):
It's a snow away.

Speaker 6 (21:29):
Good day, gentlemen.

Speaker 3 (21:33):
How did you get I'm called Luna.

Speaker 7 (21:35):
I am a friend of Emma.

Speaker 3 (21:38):
Now you know I'm not crazy, Wally? She is real.

Speaker 6 (21:41):
Where did you get there?

Speaker 3 (21:41):
Secure?

Speaker 6 (21:42):
You no trouble at all?

Speaker 3 (21:43):
Really you get trouble? Mere lady stowing away on a
Space Shuttle flight is.

Speaker 6 (21:48):
A federal offense. That doesn't concern me. I am here
for Commander Rock Why, why what do you want with me?

Speaker 7 (21:55):
Think back, Emmett to your first mission, your very first
space flight.

Speaker 3 (22:02):
But it was eighteen years ago. How would you know
anything about it?

Speaker 6 (22:06):
That is where we met. Don't you remember you had
a vision.

Speaker 3 (22:10):
This is crazy, m it eh. She must have overheard
us at breakfast or else, or else. She's reading my mind.

Speaker 1 (22:18):
I recommend to we lock her up and keep her
out of civilians, and we radio report the mission control.

Speaker 3 (22:23):
Now, yeah, I suppose to be sure. Stand back, ma'am.
I'm going to shut this hatch now.

Speaker 6 (22:28):
Just think back, Emmett, all those years ago. She's a
spy on it. I sab it to her.

Speaker 3 (22:44):
She's done her homework on you. Probably knows your last
story back with and forward.

Speaker 1 (22:47):
Let me ask you something while he had Do you
remember what happened on my first plight?

Speaker 5 (22:52):
But I remember it was a.

Speaker 3 (22:54):
Big deal on the news.

Speaker 4 (22:55):
I was just a kid then.

Speaker 1 (22:56):
I was in a small capsule alone in Earth orbit.
The night before I was supposed to land.

Speaker 5 (23:02):
I had a power figure.

Speaker 1 (23:04):
Yeah that's right, your computer went out there and I
had to bring the ship down manually.

Speaker 3 (23:08):
Everybody figured you turn into a fireball when you hit
the ass. Yeah, I was really terrified.

Speaker 1 (23:13):
I didn't expect to make it, but you brought her
in perfectly.

Speaker 10 (23:16):
Like you've been doing it all your life.

Speaker 6 (23:19):
That got me hooked bunt space.

Speaker 3 (23:21):
But that's that's not the whole story.

Speaker 1 (23:24):
What do you mean When my computer burned out, I
still had another twelve hours in orbit before re entry.
I had a lot of time to think about it,
to worry myself. So that night, all alone up there
in that darkened capsule, I had this dream, this visitation.
A woman's voice told me I'd be protected, watched over it,

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and I'd land the capsule safely. Now, obviously that was
a hallucination caused by my anxiety.

Speaker 3 (23:53):
But it gave me the confidence I needed. But what
does that get to do with our friend downstairs?

Speaker 1 (23:57):
Because she knows about it. Well, that's why I say
she's a spine. Somehow she got access.

Speaker 3 (24:02):
To the ready room while we were eating breakfast. She
overheard is talking. Now she's she's trying to say.

Speaker 6 (24:07):
You are Molly.

Speaker 1 (24:08):
I've got to find out. I'm going downstairs and talk. Oh,
we'd better report it first, then, I know no, Mury'll just.

Speaker 5 (24:15):
Abort the mission.

Speaker 3 (24:16):
This is my problem. I've got to face it along.
But she could be dangerous.

Speaker 5 (24:19):
Watch me on the monitor.

Speaker 1 (24:22):
If it looks like I'm in trouble, you come on,
dom Ah, Okay, Lona, you can come out now.

Speaker 6 (24:35):
He decided to trust me, you commando.

Speaker 3 (24:37):
Look, let's get something straight. I'm here because I want
some answers.

Speaker 1 (24:41):
Of course, my partner, on the other hand, is aching
to lock you up and throw away the cheek.

Speaker 6 (24:45):
But in it, you know all the answers. Try to
think of that.

Speaker 3 (24:50):
Now. Look, I've wrapped my brains. I just don't remember.

Speaker 7 (24:53):
You have buried the memory deep inside. We must pull
it out. Perhaps I should use.

Speaker 2 (24:58):
The mind block?

Speaker 3 (24:59):
Is that another one your little tricks?

Speaker 7 (25:00):
The nine o'clock is quite powerful. It will allow our
thoughts to mingle. If you cooperate, it will trigger your
deepest memories.

Speaker 3 (25:10):
You mean, I've got to trust you if I want
to get to the bottom of this.

Speaker 6 (25:13):
Yes, emmittt you must trust me.

Speaker 3 (25:16):
Well, okay, if it'll explain who you are, let's do it.

Speaker 5 (25:21):
But I'm warning you, Luna.

Speaker 3 (25:23):
Let you try anything while he is watching us on
a monitor.

Speaker 7 (25:27):
Your will just close your eyes and try to relax
while I stroke your forehead.

Speaker 9 (25:37):
Let the years roll back.

Speaker 6 (25:40):
It is eighteen years ago, your first machine. You are
alone in your space.

Speaker 3 (25:49):
Capsule.

Speaker 6 (25:52):
Describe what you see, capsule.

Speaker 3 (25:57):
It's very small. God, I'm shutting down the controls. I'm
getting ready for sleep.

Speaker 6 (26:10):
Await, what's happening?

Speaker 3 (26:13):
Something's wrong?

Speaker 1 (26:15):
My instrument panel just split up like a Christmas tree.
And I see a face on a view screen.

Speaker 6 (26:22):
Oh, I never describe it.

Speaker 3 (26:25):
It's a woman.

Speaker 1 (26:27):
It's you, you're saying, but you're a friend, a traveler
from far away.

Speaker 3 (26:35):
You wanna talk, You wanna help me?

Speaker 7 (26:38):
And do you believe me?

Speaker 2 (26:40):
No?

Speaker 1 (26:42):
I'm thinking this must be an hallucination brought on my stress.

Speaker 7 (26:49):
Do you need help in it?

Speaker 6 (26:51):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (26:52):
Yes, I do need help.

Speaker 1 (26:54):
My ship is crippled. I have to bring it in manually.
I'm afraid I won't be or to do it.

Speaker 3 (27:00):
I'm afraid I may die.

Speaker 6 (27:03):
And do I offer to help you?

Speaker 3 (27:06):
You offer to make a deal.

Speaker 5 (27:10):
Yes, you will unlock my mind.

Speaker 1 (27:13):
Your thoughts will become one with mine.

Speaker 3 (27:17):
You will guide me, give me strength, confidence.

Speaker 6 (27:21):
And what do I ask in return?

Speaker 3 (27:25):
You want me to make a.

Speaker 1 (27:27):
Promise in exchange for giving me this heroic streak in
my personality. I must agree to return with you to
your home when I retire. It's a little like faust.
I will lead a charmed life, but I'll give you

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my soul.

Speaker 6 (27:49):
And what is your decision?

Speaker 1 (27:52):
I decide to accept your offer because because you believe.

Speaker 3 (27:56):
In me, No, because I know it'll le the hallucination.
I learned that in my train.

Speaker 6 (28:04):
That's you may return to the present. See er, you
remember it all.

Speaker 3 (28:16):
I remember the dream I had eighteen years ago. So
what does that prove?

Speaker 7 (28:19):
I was in your dream and I'm here Now, how
do you explain the whole.

Speaker 1 (28:22):
Idea is preposterous. Now you've planted some sort of hypnotic
suggestion in my mind. While he's right, you're some kind
of saboteur and this is psychological warfare.

Speaker 6 (28:31):
You know that's not true.

Speaker 7 (28:32):
The explanation is very simple. I am of a superior intelligence,
not of this Earth, not from Earth. I am Luna
Xlana from the planet Argon of the star Sirius eight
point seven light years away.

Speaker 3 (28:53):
But that's that's fantastic.

Speaker 1 (28:57):
You're an expert terrestrial or you are extra agony in
It's all on how you look at it.

Speaker 3 (29:05):
That's incredible. Don't go what exclaim your metal powers, your
influence over me.

Speaker 1 (29:11):
All right, miss, hands up the commander, Wally, did you
hear what?

Speaker 3 (29:15):
He's the whole thing on the monitor. She's got you,
I mesmerized.

Speaker 6 (29:17):
Dammit, you don't believe me, Captain Luna.

Speaker 1 (29:20):
From Argon, Come on, your actors gone on long enough.

Speaker 3 (29:24):
I'm pricing you under a wret.

Speaker 6 (29:25):
I'm sorry, but I cannot allow now.

Speaker 3 (29:27):
Wally, Wally, please every please under control. Sorry, am, I'm
gonna override your judgment on this one. Come on, lady,
into the air. All right, Wally, I'm still commander of
this ship.

Speaker 2 (29:36):
Right now.

Speaker 3 (29:36):
You are in no shape to run this ship.

Speaker 1 (29:38):
I'm taking over your command according to emergency procedures.

Speaker 3 (29:42):
Okay, let's go lady through the hatch.

Speaker 7 (29:45):
I warn you, Captain, you will force me to employ
the Ardonian mind drop.

Speaker 6 (29:48):
You just keep your hands that you're side.

Speaker 7 (29:49):
A mind lock does not require contact.

Speaker 6 (29:54):
My head.

Speaker 3 (30:01):
What if you don't do it?

Speaker 7 (30:02):
It's called psychokinetic thought sees you have actually approved your points.

Speaker 3 (30:05):
You do have superior metal powers. Is this what you
intend to do of them?

Speaker 5 (30:09):
Cripple my crowel Now I.

Speaker 7 (30:11):
Intend to collect on that promise of yours, Emmitt, I'm taking.

Speaker 6 (30:15):
You back with me to Aragon.

Speaker 4 (30:22):
So Lunar plans to collect on an old debt. The
amount ode is considerable. It's Emmett's life, payable on the
day he retires. But Emmett is not anxious to pay up,
and so he's got to think fast. Can he bargain me, negotiate,
or otherwise escape from his commitment. We'll find out in

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Speaker 4 (32:52):
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heaven and Earth paraphrase Shakespeare. One of these wonders is
intelligent life. Scientists are obsessed with the discovery of new
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they introduce themselves to the world or simply take a
few of us back for observation or worse? It seems
that Wally and Emmett's fate may be the latter, and
with Wally out of action, their future seems to lie
in Emmett's hands.

Speaker 3 (33:34):
Well, come, come out of the oil that's gone on here.
It takes a most to the way here.

Speaker 1 (33:45):
Oh oh, that's better, and maybe contact back into Nay collapsed.

Speaker 5 (33:53):
Remember how it happened.

Speaker 1 (33:55):
We were searching through all the storage blockers and when
they found them, and what I whatever it was we
were looking for, right, and you tell me, I'll tell
you the truth. I'm not sure what we did find I.

Speaker 3 (34:10):
I've gone completely blank. Any pain, No, I just.

Speaker 1 (34:15):
I got this weird feeling like like my mind's been unplugged.
And that's uh, absolutely all you remember.

Speaker 3 (34:25):
That's it. You don't have to report this to me. No, no,
no reason to really not good. It's a fair exchange.

Speaker 1 (34:33):
Then I I covered for you on the launch pad,
and now you can return to fare.

Speaker 3 (34:37):
No, wait a minute, you do remember what happened this morning?

Speaker 4 (34:41):
Of course?

Speaker 2 (34:42):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (34:42):
You had a dizzy spell. Thank the saints, you didn't
black out. Can you remember what caused it? Sure you
couldn't handle the idea of retirement? Whally, you don't recall
my mentioning a red headed woman? A red hair You
have to.

Speaker 1 (34:56):
Wonder from the party last night you got a new
girlfriend you didn't tell I.

Speaker 5 (35:00):
Told you all about a wally.

Speaker 3 (35:02):
Remember you thought she was a spy.

Speaker 1 (35:04):
Oh, I'm sorry, and you must have cooked this one
up in your sleep. You don't remember what knocked you out.

Speaker 3 (35:09):
My mind's a total blank. What did happen? You were?
You were uh, a little dizzy, I guess, and uh
you passed out. Mm it's probably that freeze dried food
they give us. Yeah, yeah, that's suh. That's probably all
it was. It comes with the job.

Speaker 6 (35:26):
MM.

Speaker 3 (35:27):
It reminds me i'd better have a look at that radar.
We should be closing in on that satellite by NAF.

Speaker 1 (35:32):
Yeah, that's a good idea. You monitor the satellite. I'll
go below and start.

Speaker 5 (35:36):
Prepping the cargo bay.

Speaker 3 (35:38):
Oh okay, you can come out now, Rona.

Speaker 6 (35:47):
You were ready to talk to me, Emma.

Speaker 3 (35:49):
Oh what did you do to wallych my panic?

Speaker 7 (35:53):
I did Wally a favor.

Speaker 6 (35:54):
He has no need to remember me. This affair concerns
us along.

Speaker 3 (35:58):
Very very neat.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
It's just what is your plan to spirit me away
and have Wally forget I ever existed too?

Speaker 9 (36:05):
Mtt emtt I got the satellite in here.

Speaker 3 (36:08):
I bringing a shuttle up alongside the bat. Then I'll
come down and give you a hair roger, Wally. Okay,
now listen. When Wally comes down here, I'll get rid
of him somehow.

Speaker 1 (36:18):
I'll get him outside the ship, and then you and
I will settle this business.

Speaker 3 (36:23):
Once and for all. Wow, you got the cargo bay
doors open?

Speaker 2 (36:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (36:33):
Yeah, Wally, they're open.

Speaker 2 (36:34):
Good.

Speaker 3 (36:35):
We're sitting right next to the satellite. You can holler
in anytime. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (36:38):
We Uh, we've got a problem here, Wally. The mechanical
arm isn't working.

Speaker 3 (36:44):
The manipulator. You sure, well maybe no, I'm sure. I'm sure, Wally,
it's definitely broken. Without the arm, we can't very well
grab onto the satellite, now I can't.

Speaker 5 (36:52):
I got Well, we'll have to do it.

Speaker 3 (36:54):
I hand my hand.

Speaker 1 (36:56):
One of us will have to suit up and go outside.
I will attach a cable to the saddleite and pull
it on board with the winds.

Speaker 3 (37:03):
Right right, we'll uh wheel around like a big game fish. Okay,
let's get you into a pressure seat.

Speaker 2 (37:09):
Now.

Speaker 3 (37:09):
Why uh, I'll let you suit up.

Speaker 5 (37:11):
Wally, I think I'll uh, I'll let.

Speaker 3 (37:13):
You go out there. But this is your last chance
for a space Well, no, no, no, I've had plenty
of you go this time. You can use the practice. Okay,
to your decision. Okay, let's see you run through the procedure.
I'll float out of the airlock, then push off toward
the satellite.

Speaker 6 (37:28):
Right.

Speaker 3 (37:29):
Make sure you'll anchor your lifeline first. Oh sure.

Speaker 6 (37:32):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (37:32):
Then I'll float out about seventy five yard right with
the winch cable and a wrench cable.

Speaker 5 (37:37):
Right, I attach you to the satellite.

Speaker 3 (37:39):
And that's the tough part. You'll have to watch, but
I know what to do. You're trying to jinx me
or why? Oh? Sorry, Yeah, I just wanna make sure
it goes smoothly. Look, you can go yourself if you
think I don't know, I'll no, no, no, you go.
I'll have my hands full in here. I've never seen
you zo cars you. Oh, it's a risky job. You're

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just watch yourself. I'll shovel to remote one radio Jack.

Speaker 9 (38:07):
Wait, I'm about me on my right.

Speaker 2 (38:13):
Wine. I'll call you again in ten minutes.

Speaker 5 (38:15):
Roger out, so.

Speaker 6 (38:19):
Very alone?

Speaker 3 (38:20):
Shall we talk? I didn't hear you come up.

Speaker 6 (38:23):
I've been right beside.

Speaker 7 (38:24):
I do all along.

Speaker 6 (38:25):
I just made sure you couldn't see me.

Speaker 3 (38:28):
You will obviously have enough skills to do whatever you want.

Speaker 5 (38:32):
Why not just overpower me.

Speaker 6 (38:34):
I can't force you to come to agon. That would
be morally wrong. You must act of.

Speaker 3 (38:38):
Your own freeware, morally wrong after what you've done.

Speaker 5 (38:42):
What do you mean that you've played around with my life.

Speaker 3 (38:44):
As though I was a character in some play of
yours exaggerated?

Speaker 5 (38:47):
Well, just think about it.

Speaker 1 (38:48):
If you've tapped with my thought process, you've modified my personality.

Speaker 6 (38:52):
Your personality is intact, and.

Speaker 1 (38:53):
You've completely warped my motivation. I've always wondered why people
expect me to be heroic.

Speaker 3 (39:00):
I was never a man of action.

Speaker 5 (39:01):
I was always more of a a thinker.

Speaker 7 (39:04):
That is true.

Speaker 5 (39:05):
It was true till you came along and got me
to make this bargain with you.

Speaker 1 (39:11):
Now, your influence has made me into some sort of
a macho swash butler.

Speaker 6 (39:16):
I never made you into anything. I don't have that
kind of power. True.

Speaker 7 (39:20):
I've helped you that only by encouraging your natural potential.
You've always wanted to be daring and a hero, and
so you have been.

Speaker 3 (39:29):
How do you know what it is I want?

Speaker 7 (39:31):
You're subconscious in it. All your secret desires are locked
in there. I've just helped you bring them out.

Speaker 3 (39:39):
And you think that's morally right.

Speaker 7 (39:41):
Where I come from, the highest morality is self improvement.
To leave yourself undeveloped, unformed, and ineffective, that is immoral.

Speaker 3 (39:51):
I might have done things differently.

Speaker 5 (39:52):
I might have I might have married, had a family.

Speaker 2 (39:56):
A hall.

Speaker 3 (39:56):
You can still do these things on are gone? Is
that it?

Speaker 6 (40:01):
That's what I'd humped? And just what is that? Like?

Speaker 1 (40:06):
Some crazy place with a green sky and two suns
and odd little creatures running around? No things, no I'm
not gonna go to a strange planet and sit in
some cage and be a man from it. No, I'll
take my chances here, even if it means forty years
on the front porch of the Retired Astronauts.

Speaker 6 (40:24):
Hall, Well, you paint a bleak picture of your er.

Speaker 5 (40:28):
Come here, Wally, I forgot all about him.

Speaker 3 (40:32):
Yes, Wally, what's wrong?

Speaker 9 (40:33):
I've stuck my hair out. I got tired.

Speaker 3 (40:36):
Are you losing air?

Speaker 2 (40:37):
I can't tell you.

Speaker 3 (40:38):
I think I might be Okay, I can't hang on.
I'm suiting up right now.

Speaker 2 (40:42):
He am it?

Speaker 6 (40:44):
More, Heroin?

Speaker 3 (40:45):
This is all your fault. I sent Wally out there
so we can have a showdown. And now, look, what
is this you're doing? What sure? Sure it is?

Speaker 1 (40:54):
You've caused an accident out there to get me outside
the ship.

Speaker 3 (40:57):
That's it, isn't it.

Speaker 7 (40:57):
I wouldn't say I caused it.

Speaker 2 (40:59):
Let's say I.

Speaker 1 (41:00):
Well, you use your powers to save them, Lord, don't
let them die out there.

Speaker 7 (41:04):
Sorry, I can't do that.

Speaker 6 (41:06):
It's up to you to rescue them.

Speaker 7 (41:08):
You will find that this rescue will work.

Speaker 6 (41:11):
Out for the best.

Speaker 2 (41:15):
You got a haul me up.

Speaker 9 (41:16):
Crack.

Speaker 3 (41:17):
Oh, there's no time for that. I'm bringing the air
out to you.

Speaker 5 (41:20):
Now you hang up.

Speaker 3 (41:21):
I'm on my way.

Speaker 5 (41:29):
Where are you am?

Speaker 3 (41:30):
I'm drifting towards you on your blind side.

Speaker 6 (41:32):
My oxygen engage is on zero.

Speaker 9 (41:36):
I'm fady all.

Speaker 3 (41:37):
I bleach out with your left arm. I'll put the
air canister right into your glove. Here it is credit,
don't see my vision blow got up. Just attach your
air holes to that caniste.

Speaker 9 (41:54):
Oh oh, oh, oh oh.

Speaker 5 (42:02):
A few more seconds, then.

Speaker 3 (42:05):
Hems, hemmy, you haven't got a lifeline. What I must
have forgotten it? Attach it? I was in such a hurry.

Speaker 11 (42:12):
Do without outline, You'll drift out in the space quick
trying to reach for me. Hold on to me, I
can't reach.

Speaker 3 (42:24):
Heart's too late from drifting beyond your reach.

Speaker 11 (42:28):
I'll get back to the ship and pick out all
My oxygen won't last long enough, but I can't just
watch it drift off.

Speaker 3 (42:36):
There's nothing you can do, Walie. I finally got myself
into a jam. I just can't get out of emmys.

Speaker 1 (42:45):
You didn't actually plan this, not exactly, I guess I U.

Speaker 2 (42:54):
I let it hot. All your fear of retirement.

Speaker 6 (42:59):
You just couldn't stand the idea of.

Speaker 3 (43:01):
Returning to Earth as an ordinary mortal. I guess not.
I've outlived my usefulness, Wally. This is an appropriate fake.

Speaker 5 (43:11):
You saved my life, and you are going high.

Speaker 6 (43:16):
Just like them making you are.

Speaker 3 (43:18):
Don't get mush. It took me a faith, yea sure anything.

Speaker 5 (43:24):
When you get back, don't follow in my footsteps.

Speaker 3 (43:27):
Okay, I can't rather as you're there and.

Speaker 4 (43:31):
The radio is painting out.

Speaker 2 (43:34):
A walie.

Speaker 5 (43:36):
If I am it, May the.

Speaker 2 (43:38):
Lord be with you.

Speaker 6 (43:51):
Welcome aboard in it.

Speaker 7 (43:53):
You can take off your space illments. The atmosphere in
my ship is identical to yours.

Speaker 5 (44:02):
Now you picked me up to some time my air.

Speaker 7 (44:06):
Just good heart, But this is not nearly as dramatic
as your rescue of Wally. You'll return to Word and
tell them the tragic story of how you died bringing
him that chemister.

Speaker 2 (44:16):
There.

Speaker 6 (44:17):
You'll be a national hero all over again.

Speaker 3 (44:20):
Yeah, yeah, your plan work out just perfectly.

Speaker 1 (44:23):
Dinner, how'd you keep the ship hit me from us?
I wait, don't tell me you'll use your superior powers.

Speaker 7 (44:29):
I'm lucky for you to be snatched out of deep space,
right out.

Speaker 3 (44:34):
Of the frying pan and into the fire. All right,
what do you plan to do with me now?

Speaker 7 (44:39):
Well, now that you're officially retired, you can return to
Argum with me.

Speaker 3 (44:46):
Now, I'm not exactly thrilled by that prospect.

Speaker 7 (44:49):
You'll be the first Earthling to leave the Solar System
and travel to another star. I should think you'd be
excited about the adventure ahead.

Speaker 1 (44:59):
What adventure being examined and probed by a bunch of
Argonian scientists.

Speaker 7 (45:03):
You have the wrong impression in it. I'm not taking
you back as a specimen.

Speaker 6 (45:07):
I'm taking you.

Speaker 3 (45:08):
Back as a man. I fail to see the difference.

Speaker 6 (45:13):
Well, let me explain. My world is a sad place.

Speaker 7 (45:19):
We had no real men there. We have the elders,
very old men, but no reproductive, fertile males. Long ago,
genetic engineers caused a terrible accident, and no natural children
had been born on Argon for nearly a century, only

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laboratory babies. That is why I journeyed to Earth to
bring back a man. You want a home, a family,
a wife.

Speaker 6 (45:53):
You told me these things.

Speaker 3 (45:54):
Oh sure, but that was back home on Earth.

Speaker 6 (45:56):
That Argon will be your new home.

Speaker 7 (45:58):
I'll make a good wife.

Speaker 3 (46:00):
I think that's impossible. But we're from two different worlds.

Speaker 6 (46:04):
We're very compatible.

Speaker 7 (46:06):
We are both humanoid species, and we're based on the
same organic chemistry.

Speaker 6 (46:11):
Or believe me, I've researched it.

Speaker 1 (46:13):
That's why you were chosen, chosen, chosen. Just listen to yourself.
It sounds like I'm an animal being greed for breeding.

Speaker 7 (46:22):
And you make me sound so cold. I am a
very romantic person by Argonian standards.

Speaker 5 (46:29):
Yeah, well not by my standards.

Speaker 7 (46:31):
But you must remember I've spent quite a lot of
time allowing my mind to mingle with yours, and I've
become very attached.

Speaker 6 (46:39):
To your thought process.

Speaker 3 (46:42):
On your world.

Speaker 6 (46:43):
You would say I am.

Speaker 2 (46:46):
In love with you.

Speaker 3 (46:48):
Well, that notion will take some time getting used to.

Speaker 7 (46:52):
I suppose yes, But you will get used to me,
and as your mind developed, it will grow to love me.

Speaker 3 (47:04):
This will take some getting used to.

Speaker 7 (47:09):
And what's that the guidance committ We nearly finished our
last orbit around us.

Speaker 6 (47:14):
We must prepare for the trip to Argum.

Speaker 3 (47:16):
Now I don't see any controls. How's this thing powered.

Speaker 7 (47:19):
By thought projection? I wear this helmet and I just
concentrate on my destination.

Speaker 3 (47:29):
What an amazing content.

Speaker 1 (47:32):
I don't suppose you could give me a lesson, but
of course, here put on this helmet, nose I I
may have a whole new career as an askronaut on
organ just may.

Speaker 7 (47:45):
Now picture yourself under tangerine skies.

Speaker 6 (47:51):
Imagine pale green flow.

Speaker 4 (48:05):
So Emmett may not have to retire after all, and
it looks like you'll be enjoying domestic bliss far away
from the magnifying glass of public life on hers. I
suspect many celebrities would jump at the chance to retire
into a completely new and anonymous life.

Speaker 3 (48:23):
And as for Lunar, more about her after this.

Speaker 4 (48:29):
This is Gene King for your Better Business Bureau, the
new game seems to be the electronic one. Video and
portable electronic games have suddenly taken hold, and the Better
Business Bureau offers this advice. Do a lot of comparison
shopping because costs vary both with complexity and with the manufacturer.

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Play a wide variety of games too, and find out
which ones you prefer, and then read uarity carefully. Most
electronic games come with limited warranties, but some don't. If
yours doesn't check out the store's repair and exchange policies.
The availability of repairs should play an important part in

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your choice, as should the additional expenses of different so
called software packages, but most importantly, buy your game from
a reputable dealer where you can count on the staff's
knowledge and service.

Speaker 5 (49:27):
A tip from your Better Business Bureau.

Speaker 4 (49:30):
This is what happened to Larry another reader or is
it victive of Raven House Mysteries. I was at the
bus stop reading the latest raven House paperback when a
lady walked by.

Speaker 7 (49:44):
She seemed familiar, like a newer from somewhere where.

Speaker 3 (49:48):
I followed her. She started to run and I lost
her in the crowd. The next day I saw her
again in the supermarket. Our eyes met over the lettuce.

Speaker 6 (49:57):
I said, Sarah, you're supposed to to be dead.

Speaker 4 (50:03):
Raven House mysteries are so engrossing you can't help but
let the mystery take over your life.

Speaker 3 (50:10):
It was a little embarrassing.

Speaker 4 (50:12):
I had her confused with the character in my raven
House mystery. Raven House publishes new mysteries every month, which.

Speaker 3 (50:20):
One will claim you as it's victims.

Speaker 4 (50:23):
If you're clever enough, you will find the raven House
mysteries wherever paperbacks are sold. There are theorists who believe
that when we finally encounter alien beings, they will not

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have journeyed from this ours, but rather crossed over from
parallel dimensions or slipped through.

Speaker 3 (50:55):
Warps in time. Some even suggest these beings.

Speaker 1 (50:58):
Will be generated in our own minds.

Speaker 6 (51:01):
Our only hope must.

Speaker 4 (51:03):
Be that they will be as benign and wise as Luna,
for there is no guarantee that these creatures are not
already among us, their sights set upon you for me,
and as for their purpose, we'll just have to wait
and see. Our cast included Larry Haynes, Russell Horton, and

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Marion Seldus. The entire production was under the direction of
Hyman Brown Radio Mystery Theater were sponsored in part by
raven House Paperback Mysteries.

Speaker 6 (51:35):
This is E. G.

Speaker 4 (51:36):
Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure in the macabre.

Speaker 3 (51:43):
Until next time, Pleasant Dreams.

Speaker 8 (52:18):
CBS News in one minute. If you're worried about high
blood pressure, listen to this. You don't necessarily have to
use drugs to control this silent killer.

Speaker 3 (52:28):
That's right.

Speaker 8 (52:29):
In a five year study that medical researchers conducted with
approximately four thousand patients at a world famous US clinic,
high blood pressure was successfully reduced in a majority of cases.

Speaker 3 (52:40):
Mild and severe. Where was it done? How was it done?

Speaker 6 (52:43):
Now?

Speaker 8 (52:44):
You can read about it in a special report called
The Natural Way to Control High blood Pressure. You are
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Northeast are bracing force and bitter cold weather, but the
Midwest is already facing temperatures below zero. Mister John Bohannon,
reporting on the CDs Radio network. We have details on
the severe cold in Middle America from Rich Holter of
CBS affiliate WCCO in Minneapolis.

Speaker 10 (53:47):
One of the largest cold air masses seen in recent
years has settled over the upper Midwest, driving temperatures well
below the zero mark whether expected to stay throughout the weekend.
A bitter cold that has settled in from Montana to
Michigan is being accompanied by winds of fifteen to twenty
five miles per hour, making it a very real threat
to human life. The temperature here in the Twin Cities

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is expected to reach twenty one below zero by morning,
with windchill factors in the fifty below range. In northern
portions of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and North Dakota, conditions will be
even more severe. Actual temperatures in the forty below range
will produce windschill factors of sixty to eighty below zero,
conditions that rapidly bring on frostbite and other health complications.

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Saturday's high temperatures may reach only twenty below in northern
portions of the region, and in that case it would
be an instant replay for residents of International Falls, Minnesota,
where Friday's high was nineteen below zero. Rich Old for
CBS News.

Speaker 8 (54:45):
Minneapolis search teams are using bulldozers in Santa Cruz, California,
south of San Francisco to uncover homes still buried under
tons of mud. Official say as many as twenty additional
victims may be trapped under that mud, but clean up from.

Speaker 3 (54:58):
Severe storms continue.

Speaker 8 (55:00):
He's throughout a two hundred mile region of northern California,
where the death count is now twenty six and more
than four hundred thirty homes have been destroyed. Thousands of
others are damaged. Total property damage is said to be
nearly three hundred million dollars more CBS News In a
Minute Tuesday.

Speaker 4 (55:15):
On CBS Television, It's Richard Pryor in re Stlaightning. Heel
rays anyone, anywhere, any time.

Speaker 3 (55:24):
Drive him, drive crazy.

Speaker 4 (55:28):
It's fun in the fast lane with Richard Pryor, Bullbridges
and Pam Brier.

Speaker 2 (55:32):
I don't want let else the one on the time.

Speaker 4 (55:34):
And no one can keep him from the winner circle.
Don't miss Richard Pryor in pre Slightning Tuesday at nine
eight Central and Mountain on CBS Television.

Speaker 3 (55:47):
This Sunday, it's NFL Action.

Speaker 8 (55:49):
First the AFC Championship Game San Diego at Cincinnati, beginning
get twelve forty five pm Eastern Time. CBS Radio Sports
Lindsay Nelson and Jim Kelly there for the excitement.

Speaker 4 (55:58):
Then at four to forty five pm Eastern, and it's
Dallas at.

Speaker 8 (56:00):
San Francisco and the NFC Championship, Jack Buck and Pat Summer.

Speaker 4 (56:04):
All with that broadcast, you'll miss the action of the.

Speaker 8 (56:06):
AFC and NFC Championships this Sunday on most of the
CBS radio network stations.

Speaker 3 (56:11):
Here it here.

Speaker 8 (56:18):
The Justice Department and American Telephone and Telegraph have reached
an agreement to settle a seven year old anti trust suit.
The government will drop the case and AT and T
will sell twenty two bell operating companies worth about eighty
billion dollars.

Speaker 3 (56:31):
But Charles Brown, the chairman.

Speaker 8 (56:32):
Of AT and T, stresses that now AT and T
can expand in a data processing and other new areas.

Speaker 12 (56:38):
We feel that the country is on the threshold of
what has come to be known as the Information Age.
That praise denotes astonishing possibilities for employing electronic technology to
make our lives easier, to make our labor more productive,

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and to make our lifestyles more individualized.

Speaker 8 (57:07):
The government says the agreement will mean more competition and telecommunications,
but some local telephone builds are likely to go up.
A Justice Department has also dropped a thirteen year old
antitrust suit against international business machines. Officials say that case
is now without merit because the computer industry has grown
enormously with a proliferation of competitors. In news reaching the
West Friday from Poland, at least eight prominent cultural and

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intellectual figures have sent an appeal to General Jarozelski. The
appeal ones of possible tragedy and further bloodshed.

Speaker 5 (57:36):
Unless martial law is lifted.

Speaker 8 (57:38):
Martial law officials in Poland have reported severe grain shortages
and their indications that military rule will continue for some time.
Government officials in Warsaw also say a solidarity leader will
face trial for urging that government officials be hanged now
this