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Show -267- "Here, l e t me take your coats," the neighbor said when he had put the glasses down on the bar and instructed the bartender In how to r e f i l l them. The Professor was carrying a light raincoat. His wife was wearing hers. The neighbor took them, saying they would be inv.fche closet in the entranceway. "I'm glad you could come," he said. Order what you want to drink? There's food in the dining room? Most of the guests are down in the living room." The Professor and his wife took their drinks. They walked through the dining room, where a table was spread with a ll kinds of meats? breads, and cakes, then down the few steps into the living room. The f i r s t person the Professor saw that he knew was a young man who taught English a t the local college? "Hello? Professor," he said. "Good to see you again?" The only times they had met in the past had been a t part i e s in t h i s house? though the Professor occasionally ran into the young man's wife,(a pretty, blonde German g i r l , whom the man had met while in the service^ when shopping in the local Safeway store? "Say?" the young man went on, "I read where the faculty's going on s t r i k e ? What's going on out there7" The question annoyed the Professor? Even though he knew the subject was bound to come up? he also knew the young man was just making conversation. If he read the newspapers or |