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Show 87 "In armyese, Colonel Satterwhite would like you to drop in. Smead made the call." "Does the Major know?" "He says go ahead; keep the bastards happy." Sid put his leg back into the jeep and started the engine. "What are you doing here? You should be in Osaka." "Yesterday I was. Tomorrow I go to Kyoto." "Come back for socks? You usually manage to bridge it over." "Business." And Jennings looked mysterious. He was known to have irons in a number of fires, all needing attention. "So what's new?" asked Sid, and pulled away. In Higashi the storekeepers were out, the women (dressed in balloon-like mompei) washing off the sidewalks, and along the road bob-haired little girls walked to school, in the rice-paddies beyond Higashi an* old man strode along, distributing night-soil from buckets swung from a pole across his shoulders. The scene was pieced, |