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                              MATCHMAKER

                        By CHARLES L. FONTENAY

               _Ask a sensible question and you're sure
              to get a sensible answer--remembering that
              one man's sense may be a machine's poison!_

           [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from
                Worlds of If Science Fiction, May 1960.
         Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
         the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]


Jasso laid the bulky report on his superior's desk.

"No one living can solve the problem," he said.

Tern stared at him quizzically and leaned back in the cushioned chair
behind his desk.

"That's encouraging," Tern said with a wry smile. "The second
generation?"

"The probabilities are high. The most likely father is a man named Lao
Protik, a psycho-artist living in Nuyork.