Rat Race and two more stories

Excerpt: ""You''re nuts," came the reply, but the voice on the telephone was jovially reproving rather than sarcastic. "I can''t do anything about this order. Peter Manton blinked. "But it has a Four-A-One priority." Brannon nodded—invisibly, of course—and said, "Sure you have a top priority. Anything your lab wants has top. But darn it, Peter, the best priority in the world isn''t going to buy yo...