Free A Glint In Time (History and Time) by Frank J. Derfler

does."
    "The use of PR, press relations, was common among the Rockefellers and Kennedys. Even in those days they could give news the right spin." Bill replied.
    Sally noted to herself that among his many talents, and despite some of his faults, Bill was a realist with a lot of insight. But then it was her turn to present her idea.
    At Ted's insistence, she tried to ignore any thoughts about camera lenses in here room and to settle on the job at hand. After all, Ted explained, she could stop a war and hopefully have a father. That was pretty good motivation. Sally explained about capacitors and their function of draining off radio the frequency energy that set off the explosives in Kennedy's plane. James, the physicist in the group, nodded, popped open a laptop computer, and entered some data. While James worked, Sally continued.
    "Today's bypass capacitors can be the size of a pencil point. What your company will have to do is to encapsulate modern capacitors in a small glass or ceramic tube about the size of a 1943 capacitor, leave the wire leads sticking out, and then etch the tube with the capacitive value and a voltage rating so the technicians will know what they are and how to use them. The values are still standard, so the only real problem is encapsulation and etching. That shouldn't be difficult or expensive."
    Sonny Woo had been in America too long. He couldn't appear passive. "I'll, I'll get to it immediately! Sally, I'll need your help!" He waved Sally out of the room ahead of him, apparently on the way to find someone who knew where to get electronic parts.
    James spoke up, "Making some assumptions about weight and mass, we'll only be able to transmit about six of these a day. Each shot will fully deplete the lasers and we'll have to re-charge and cool everything down between each shot. The items we send will all show up within approximately one hundred minutes of each other and they'll cover a circle with a radius of more than 300 meters."
    "That's why we suggest targeting the parking ramp around the airplane." Ted said. "It will look like there was a spill from a cargo pallet on a passing truck or something. It's an open area, they'll be seen, and they'll probably wind up in the right hands. "
    "We will have to ask our corporate people in England to pinpoint the site." James continued. "They'll have to do research there locally to find the exact location.We need to know exactly where that airplane, the ramp, and any work areas were and what the area looked like."
    "I can help you with that." Janet said. "I have contacts in historical societies throughout England."
    A few minutes later, Bill and Ted found themselves together in the computer room.
    "Well," Bill said, "Let's see if we can find any other alternatives or problems. We don't know exactly what we're doing, but we'd better make sure that we do no harm." The two worked late.Sally checked in with Bill and Ted when she got back from the city. She reported success and then went to her room to get some sleep.
    The next morning Sally found Ted waiting for what had become their usual pre-breakfast walk. Ted's stolen kiss had led to a lot of passion under the trees on the side of the quiet path.Sally was ready to hang some towels over the TV cameras lenses in her room, but despite the explicit offer Ted wasn't ready to alienate the watchers. That led to some unusual tension between them.
    "Well, how did you do with the capacitors?" Ted asked.
    She fished in her pocket before she replied and handed Ted something that appeared to be a tiny colored glob of ceramic material hanging on two wires. "It turns out that several companies make these things in Malaysia and the Woo's ships carry them. James found a shipment and liberated a box of a couple of hundred pieces. When he left me yesterday he was on his way to get them coated in ceramic or glass to make them look like the older capacitors. He might be done today."
    "Wow," Ted replied. "Things move fast."
    "If it