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Show -90- should turn the set off whenever the Governor came on. She was afraid it would give him a heart attack? The camera moved back to the chairman, who was still pound-ing his gavel. The dog raised her head and glance^ at the screen to see what the commotion was about, then dropped it again and closed her eyes. The meeting came to order. "Now begins the inquisition," the Professor commented. He truly believed that the trustees should give the President a vote of gratitude? but he knew from their comments in the press that this was not what they had in mind? What, after all, had happened? One window had been broken; a few classes had been dismissed. If the police had been called, there most likely would have been broken heads and god knows what more. Most of the trustees were wealthy men, the majority of them businessmen from the southern part of the state. One? the ir most outspoken, called himself an architect? but he had made a fortune designing and building look-alike t r a c t homes. Only two were from San Francisco?" the lawyer the Professor had met at the party? and another, older, attorney, who had a reputation as a moderate? There was a token Black, and a token representative from labor! Two were from i n s t i t u t i o n s once influential, 1 but now outmoded or d^pjiant? whose seats would remain until the s t a t e constitution was overhauled. The chairman stated the purpose of the meeting? attempt-ing? i t seemed, not to appear biased? but he kept slippir^ in such phrases as "anarchy" and "uncontrolled violence" that revealed his prejudice? |
