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Show -94- that the President had been under unusual s t r e s s. "This is a new and entirely different situation than we have ever experienced. If i t was a mistake, i t was a mistake. You don't ask a man to resign for one mistake." One of the Professor's colleagues, the president of the university senate, asked if he might speak. He had been standing near the president, and the camera focussed briefly on him. His request brought up the question of propriety, but eventually the Chairman ruled that he might speak for two minutes. Just as he began, the Professor's telephone ran^in the hallway. He made a move to get up, but his wife signalled that she would answer. He sat back and listened to his colleague explain that the President had the full confidence of the University Senate, but many of the board members seemed not to be mo vi<c listening. Whenever the camera pawned about the table, some would be whispering among themselves or doodling on pads of paper. The Governor sat impassively staring into space. The Professor's wife's murmer on the telephone was not clear enough to hear, and, because ±t lasted longer than usual, he supposed the c a l l had come from her s i s t e r . She was s t i ll speaking when the senator finished and the member from Los Angeles called for a vote on his motion. The vote was withheld because the labor member wished to speak against the motion? Then a small, wizened man who the Professor could not identify, responded by warning the board that what they were dealing with here was a conspiracy. He was |