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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (215)	11/26/2002 11:17:59 PM
From: Graystone	Respond to of 443

Evasive question ? or I have never heard of that. Invasive questions are familiar and evasive answers but evasive questions are a new concept to me. I take it that you are not the Senior ? Informational Excerpt Many Americans may not be familiar with the works of Robert A. Heinlein, the creator of the character Lazarus Long. Robert A. Heinlein was awarded the NASA Distinguished Service Medal, the highest NASA civilian award. Perhaps no story is more illustrative of the character of Mr. Heinlein than the one told by Dr. Jerry Pournelle during that ceremony, here is a brief excerpt from Requiem and Tributes to the Grand Master ... I had bought him to JPL because I thought he belonged there; there hadn't been time to get him credentials so the NASA authorities ordered him out of the Von Karman Center. I was outraged and wanted to make a scene but Robert would have none of that. He trudged up the hill to the cafeteria. There is sometimes justice in this world. At the moment our first space craft landed on Mars most of the network news cameras were in the cafeteria trained on Mr. Heinlein, rather than down in the center recording what NASA's officialdom thought they should be watching. Here is another one... Excerpted from Between Planets by Robert A. Heinlein Don understood that the Venerian, in so tagging himself, was following the common dragon custom of borrowing as a name of convenience the name of some Earthman admired by the borrower.