#Alan dean foster the dig free#

Not that Earle was a particularly forceful speaker, but there was no way he was going to try to convey these particular details through emotionless print or stammering underlings. The news was too important, the need for a prompt and appropriate response too critical, for the relevant information to wend its way to the Chief Executive by means of the usual ruthlessly distilled and bowdlerized written report.

While very much aware of the President's busy schedule, Earle had insisted on the meeting. Something had to be done about the situation, and done soon. Words had to be chosen for immediate impact as opposed to accuracy. That meant being straightforward and to the point while keeping complex scientific terminology to a minimum. Knowing this in advance it was incumbent upon Earle, as chief science advisor to the White House, to couch his report in terms sufficiently strong to penetrate the social and diplomatic fog that permanently enveloped the President. The Chief Executive was preoccupied, his thoughts on the Cabinet meeting scheduled for one o'clock and the state dinner being readied for the Spanish Premier. From behind the desk, Earle reminded himself.

#Alan dean foster the dig free#

Warren Lyon Fraser-father, philanthropist, scion of a wealthy Illinois merchant family and at present leader of the nominally Free World, glanced up absently from behind his desk. To Steven Spielberg I waited forty years for those dinosaurs.

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