people of Earth as they worked to build the ships and weapons neces- sary to find and destroy the aliens before they did the same to the Earth. The news media spoke of little these days other than naming the horrors that would result if this war was lost and the possibility of total annihilation kept everyone working to defeat this new alien threat.

Most international problems had been ironed out by the survivors of the nuclear war of 1982, but the destruction of the Russian space cruiser by the aliens in 2050 had sure gotten all of the groups on Earth working together. Joe had been in his third year at the Space Academy in New Mexico when the incident took place and he recalled that the first reports of an attack had been met with incredulity. He still regretted the swift retaliatory measures that had been taken against the lone enemy ship for it had been vaporized by a nuclear weapon before any attempt was made at communication. The strange part of the story was the fact that the alien vessel had not tried to escape after the Russian ship exploded and the order was given to at- tack and a declaration of war was made against the unknown alien race.

Jo-Anne noticed that one of her stockings was loose and she reached to tighten the garter being careful not to cause a run. After all, there were no stores in space and no reasonable girl could exist for long with- out stockings. Just like a woman thought Joe. The human race is in danger of destruction and she worries about a pair of stockings. Still in all, Joe knew that he wouldn't be where he was without her. She had been a part of him ever since that day 25 years before when he had tried on a pair of high heeled shoes and more than once he had cursed himself for wanting to wear feminine apparel. Jo-Anne however had been persistent and he really came to accept her during the three month long solo flight that completed his training at the Academy.

The psychological testing of applicants for the job of space pilot was extremely demanding and thorough and Joe worried for a while that Jo-Anne might be discovered. She wasn't though, and the tests proved to be of little value when many of the so-called normal students came back from their three month tour of space in a state of nervous breakdown. The three month flight had gone smoothly for Joe since he was never alone as long as Jo-Anne was around and she never left him. When things got boring in space he merely started to look at things from a woman's point of view and this helped to pass the time. He had to admit that the time in space had done wonders for her appearance as she had plenty of time to practice new make-up tech- niques and she was more lady-like than ever in the artificial gravity

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