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Slingshot, by Irving W. Lande, Illustrated by
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Title: Slingshot
Author: Irving W. Lande
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Language: English
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SLINGSHOT
by
IRVING W. LANDE
Illustrated by Emsh
[Illustration]
The slingshot was, I believe, one of the few weapons of history that wasn't used in the last war. That doesn't mean it won't be used in the next!
"Got a bogey at three o'clock high. Range about six hundred miles." Johnson spoke casually, but his voice in the intercom was thin with tension.
Captain Paul Coulter, commanding Space Fighter 308, 58th Squadron, 33rd Fighter Wing, glanced up out of his canopy in the direction indicated, and smiled to himself at the instinctive reaction. Nothing there but the familiar starry backdrop, the moon far