From: kay@invalid.net

In article ,
noreplies@jymes.com says...
>
> On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 17:28:39 -0700, Kay Shapero 
> wrote:
> > In fact consistancy may be more important than
> >potential - I'm told there's a maximum IQ score allowed for potential
> >recruits.
>
> I ran into that once! I tried for a post, did all the tests, got
> rejected because I wasn't as good as some others. About two weeks
> later, they put me up for another post. Had to take exactly the same
> tests. Blew them away (about 20 pts. more than what I actually am).
> Rejected because I was too far above the others.

Grin - at least not all the services are like that - the Air Force got
Real Friendly after I took an IQ test and stored quite high.  But it was
only one of several options and I took one of the others, which given my
temperament at the time is probably a Very Good Thing.  I worked for the
AF for awhile, later, but never actually joined the thing.

>
> He bought an inconsequential little island nation and built his city
> so he could keep researchers away from prying eyes and to find people
> he can trust to share in his secret.

And in the interim gotten so paranoid that he's gone waaaaaay beyond
normal procedures for clearances, wherein the holder does not TELL
anybody not cleared for the information anything lest they get into
seriously nasty trouble*, but certainly is not forbidden to marry beyond
the usual fraternization rules in any heirarchy.  Been there, done that.
A whole city?  Ohboy. If the lowest echelon gets too unhappy, there's
either much turnover or if you try to keep them from leaving, you have
enough for a fairly messy revolution.  Since what looks like
paternalistically forbidding them sex like the kids in a British
boarding school novel is GOING to make them unhappy, I think there will
be considerably more problems than the Secret of the Time Viewer.

*Like turning some actions from misdemeanors into felonies...

I'm not saying that you can't tell this story, I'm just suggesting some
of what seems to be inherent in the sitation.  1984's a bit like this
after all, and it's a viable (if nasty) story.

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