B.E.A.S.T.

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AFTER ALL, no sensible authority would be over concerned about the personality of a man, provided he did his job effectively. Certainly it would be laughable to be worried about the personality of a machine —even a fantastically complex and sensitive computer. Although any Grade-C mechanic could tell you different.

But after all, authorities are notoriously short-sighted. They were only a little bit fearful that some of the valuable time of the computer might possibly be used for unauthorised experiments.

So they sent a quiet, discreet man into the secret biological laboratory to keep his eyes open—not to do anything, of course—just to see if there was anything to find out.

But when he told them, they couldn’t believe him...