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Status Quo by Dallas McCord Reynolds
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Title: Status Quo
Author: Dallas McCord Reynolds
Release Date: October 26, 2009 [Ebook #30339]
Language: English
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Status Quo
by Dallas McCord Reynolds
Illustrated by John Schoenherr
Analog Science Fact & Fiction
August 1961
[Transcriber's Note: This text was produced from Analog Science Fact & Fiction August 1961. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]
In his income bracket and in the suburb in which he lived, government employees in the twenty-five to thirty-five age group were currently wearing tweeds. Tweeds were in. Not to wear tweeds was Non-U.
Lawrence Woolford wore tweeds. His suit, this morning, had first seen the light of day on a hand loom in Donegal. It had been cut by a Swede widely patronized by serious young career men in Lawrence Woolford's status group; English tailors were out currently and Italians unheard of.
Woolford sauntered down the walk before his auto-bungalow, scowling at the sportscar at the curb--wrong year, wrong make. He'd have to trade it in on a new model. Which was a shame in a way, he liked the car. However, he had no desire to