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Two days later Mike the Angel was sitting at his desk making certain that M. R. GABRIEL, POWER DESIGN would function smoothly while he was gone. Serge Paulvitch, his chief designer, could handle almost everything.
Paulvitch had once said, "Mike, the hell of working for a first-class genius is that a second-class genius doesn't have a chance."