In article <
c5b9e3a1-3143-48f1-90a2-14e4a610f6f1n@googlegroups.com>,
Dana How <
danahow@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm thinking this might have been a 1950s short story by Heinlein, but I >can't identify it so far.
The story assumes a dictatorship (not necessarily religious), and a >protagonist who figures out he can cause the dictator to lose
face/authority if he blinds him during a public speech with a laser
beam. That's basically it.
I probably read it around 1976 in an anthology, possibly already old.
Sound familiar? Thanks.
Referees are dictators of a sort, right? So: Clarke's "A Slight Case
of Sunstroke"..
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