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Show -344- if he would give him a push. The couple smiled and the man said, of course he could. He even got out of his truck and helped the Professor push his car backward to a spot In the lane xmcre he could get his oxm machine up against the Professor's roar bumper. "That's a beauty of a car you got there," he told the Professor. "You l i k e i t ?" The Professor said he did. I t took only a push of about ten feet to get the Professor's engine running. As i t caught, he put the gear into neutral and raced the motor. He xaved his arm out the side xrindoxr a t the young man, both in farewell and to indicate that his car had started. Both the g i r l and the man xaved back a t him. The Professor had one more decision to make as he drove his car up to the exit and paid his fee, then continued out to the Bayshore Freexay. He could take the freexay into the city and proceed onto the bridge, thus bypassing the University, or he could drive up to Skyline Boulevard, pass the school and see what was happening. By the time he reached the Alamany interchange, his curiosity had xron out, and he turned westxard toxard Junipero Serra and Nineteenth Avenue. As he approached the Humanities Building, everything appeared quiet. Pickets xrere xalking back and forth, but there xrere only two policemen in sight, both on horseback. He glanced down Holloway Avenue toxard the Library and saw three pickets walking back and forth at the station where, he would |