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e elevator shaft.
The tall man with the camera sauntered across the roof. I looked
through the rear window of his car. The passenger seat was loaded with
photographic equipment - camerasa tripoda carton packed with
flashbulbs. A cine-camera was fastened to a dashboard clamp.
He walked back to his carcamera held like a weapon by its pistol
grip. As he reached the balcony his face was lit by the headlamps of the
police car. I realized that I had seen his pock-marked face many times
beforeprojected from a dozen forgotten television programmes and
news-magazine profiles - this was VaughanDr Robert Vaughana one-
time computer specialist. As one of the first of the new-style TV
scientistsVaughan had combined a high degree of personal glamour -
heavy black hair over a scarred facean American combat jacket -with
an aggressive lecture-theatre manner and complete conviction in his
subject matterthe application of computerized techniques to the
control of all international traffic systems. In the first programmes of
his series three years earlier Vaughan had projected a potent image
almost that of the scientist as hoodlumdriving about from laboratory to
television centre on a high-powered motorcycle. Literateambitious and
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