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From: mcb@styx.UUCP (Michael C. Berch)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Yet Another Story Request
Message-ID: <19424@styx.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 18-Feb-86 17:39:10 EST
Article-I.D.: styx.19424
Posted: Tue Feb 18 17:39:10 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 21-Feb-86 02:59:42 EST
Reply-To: mcb@styx.UUCP (Michael C. Berch)
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Organization: Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, Livermore, CA
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Keywords: "Department of Time Distribution"

My account for author/title requests is fully paid up, so I submit the
following for the august members of the net. [A few of you might
remember seeing it; I first posted it in early 1984, and got NO responses, 
which is most unusual.]

I am looking for the author, title, or a pointer to an SF short story
that I believe was published in the early 1960's (plus or minus a few
years). The story was darkly humorous, took place in an overcrowded
city, and involved a family or married (?) couple trying to make ends
meet even though a totalitarian government keeps making work days
longer by way of a Department of Time Distribution that can somehow
lengthen/shorten periods of time. There are a few other such agencies
mentioned in the story. I believe I read the story in either a reprint
or original hardcover anthology. 

It isn't Ellison's "Repent, Harlequin ...", Farmer's "Sliced-Crosswise, 
Only-on-Tuesday World" [-> Dayworld], nor Ballard's "Billenium" or
"Build-up" though it has something in common with each of these.

Any clues appreciated!

Michael C. Berch
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