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Show • 9 2 - too hot, wouldn't i t be well to l i s t e n to the president, to hear what he has to say?" Most of the trustees turned to look a t the president, who stood behind a r a i l i n g a t the far end of the table, and the camera s e t t l e d on hisdface. The chairman's voice was heard to say: "If it is the pleasure of the members - " There were no objections? but the builder turned his back on the president, whether in rejection or simply to light his cigar, it was hard to tell. The President, not a large man and with a naturally pale skin,1 seemed washed out, diminished, by the television lights, but his nervousness had given way to a quiet anger that the camera picked up and exaggerated. He had, he said, prepared a statement outlining events of the day and his response to them. With the board's permission he would read this statement, then answer any questions the members xiished to ask. The proposal was assented to with varying degrees of interest or disinterest* As the President began to read (a mistake, the Professor thought; he should have spoken extemporaneously), the camera swung atray from him and settled on the Governor? his actor's face impassive but his cheek muscles still'twitching involuntarily. There was little In the President's statement that had not been reported in the newspapers? He had had a high officer of the police department in his office. They x*ere in direct con- |