question:  Where is the conference next month?
context: [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Worlds of If Science Fiction, August 1957. MOTHER GOOSE Dr. David Lessing found Jack Dorffman and the boy waiting in his office when he arrived at the Hoffman Center that morning. Nobody's been able to get near him for three weeks, and now at six o'clock this morning he decides he's leaving the Farm. Lessing nodded at Dorffman and stepped into an adjoining room with him. I've got that young Melrose from Chicago to deal with this morning—the one who's threatening to upset the whole Conference next month with some crazy theories he's been playing with. The first was from Roberts Bros., announcing another shift of deadline on the book, and demanding the galley proofs two weeks earlier than scheduled. As director of psionic research at the Hoffman Medical Center, he had long since learned how administrative detail could suck up daytime hours. And now, as the book approached publication date, Lessing wondered if he would ever really get back to work again. It bore the letterhead of the International Psionics Conference: Dear Dr. Lessing: In recognition of your position as an authority on human Psionic behavior patterns, we would be gratified to schedule you as principle speaker at the Conference in Chicago on October 12th. "A Theory of Psionic Influence on Infant and Child Development." And the more they struggled, the thicker and more impenetrable the bramble bush became— But now David Lessing had discovered a pathway through that jungle, a theory to work by— At his elbow the intercom buzzed. "Within the stronghold of psionic research at last. "I think you'd better wait before you do that," Melrose said sharply, "because I'm planning to take you apart at the Conference next month unless I like everything I see and hear down here today. "I want to hear this fairy tale you're about to publish in the name of 'Theory'," Melrose said. "If the papers you've already published are a preview, we think it's false as Satan."
output:  Illinois
options:  Illinois  New Jersey  Connecticut  Pennsylvania