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Show -223- Chapter Sixteen When the Professor told his wife he thought the man xrho had led the students into the Administration Building xas an undercover agent for the police, she looked sceptical. His friend from the University, whom he called on the telephone that evening, xms equally unconvinced. "I think we're a l l getting paranoid about this thing," he said. "Thank God for the vacation. Maybe xre can a l l see things a l i t t l e clearer a f t e r the f i r s t of the year." The evening newscast, of course, said nothing about the Professor's idea. The reporters announced that over a hundred students had been taken into custody, as well as a young university professor who had just joined the faculty in September. The incident was, they said, the f i r s t real violence of the strike. The students had broken doxm the glass door of the building, but they had failed in their main:objective, xrhich was to confront the President. His office door had withstood their attacks on i t , and the students had had to be satisfied with shouting obscenities through i t . When the police arrived, they gave up without a struggle. The Governor xas shoxm announcing to the reporters that, in his opinion, a l l of those caught within the building should have been lined up against i t and s h o t .\ After the newscast, the Professor and his wife sat before the fireplace f i r e , he with his bourbon and water, she with a |