 Which word least describes Baron?
Brightside Crossing by Alan E. Nourse JAMES BARON was not pleased to hear that he had had a visitor when he reached the Red Lion that evening. He had no stomach for mysteries, vast or trifling, and there were pressing things to think about at this time. Yet the doorman had flagged him as he came in from the street: “A thousand pardons, Mr. Baron. Across to the right was a group that Baron knew vaguely—Andean climbers, or at least two of them were. Presently a small, grizzled man crossed the room and sat down at Baron’s table. I guess I was about ten when Wyatt and Carpenter made the last attempt—that was in 2082, I think. Too many men in this game are all nerve and luck, with no judgment. “I want to make a Crossing at perihelion and I want to cross on the surface. That makes the Brightside of Mercury at perihelion the hottest place in the Solar System, with one single exception: the surface of the Sun itself. The Twilight Lab, near the northern pole of Mercury, was the obvious jumping-off place. F. No permanent installation with a human crew could survive at either extreme. But with Mercury’s wobble, the twilight zone between Brightside and Darkside offers something closer to survival temperatures. Sanderson built the Lab up near the pole, where the zone is about five miles wide, so the temperature only varies 50 to 60 degrees with the libration.
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