Captain Michael Brunt, M.S., Cmdr.  D.  F.  Reserve, pilot (unlimited license), and veteran at thirty of the Moon run, seems to have had an inside track at the Institute, someone who was willing to look up for him the names of single female volunteers who might (with him) complete a crew, and then pair his name with these to run trial problems through the machines to determine whether or not a possible combination would be acceptable.  This would account for his action in jetting to Australia and proposing marriage to Doctor Winifred Coburn, a horse-faced spinster semantician nine years his senior.  The Carlsbad Archives pictured her with an expression of quiet good humor but otherwise lacking in attractiveness.