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It is always dawn somewhere on Earth. Tom Drake saw the sun rise where he worked feverishly in the private laboratory attached to McGuire's house. McGuire had been an eminent engineer before he became the most unpopular president the World Government ever had.
He was a sound thinker even after he was retired to private life and became the Earth's most scorned private citizen. He was equipped to verify, with his own apparatus, any material and any calculation used in any type of engineering design he was likely to be concerned with.