Supreme General Hoshawk, chief of staff, watched with piercing gray eyes while the President of the United States of the Western Hemisphere, Jeffrey Wadsworth, lay relaxed under a cosmic-ray lamp, with no covering but a towel over his loins. The surgeon-general of the Hemispheric Armies raised his hand, and the lamp receded. "Is that enough?" Hoshawk asked dryly. "It's the maximum, even for him," said the surgeon-general. "His reflexes will be faster than light itself." Hoshawk grunted, his eyes