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Adventures in which you'll live in a million could be years on a thousand maybe worlds.

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One.

Tonight's story, The Castaways by Ernest Kenois.

In the South Pacific, night comes on rapidly.

The sun dips below the flat horizon, the sea is crimson for a moment,

and then night falls.

But on Tahani Atoll, giant arc lights turn night into day.

Across the waters of the lagoon

within the barrier reef,

launches and tugs skitter back and forth.

While on the curving half-moon of the island,

army trucks and jeeps scuttled down the

rough roads bulldozed by the C-Bs just six weeks ago. A low Quonset hut stands near the beach

surrounded by tangled wire. This is the preliminary command post. And inside is General Frank

Gadash, field director of the test. Operation,

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