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Show -325- glances, when he told the reporters the students should have a voice in the planning of xrhat they xrere to be taught. The conference lasted approximately t h i r t y minutes. The final question put to the Professor xas: "Do you think a strike a good thing?" "No," he replied. "A s t r i k e should be only a last resort. I t is a sign of deep trouble. It is like xar. It forces everything into a pattern of black and white." After the nexrs conference, the Professor met again the friend who had invited him to stay a t his house, and they returned his automobile to the rental agency. His friend said he would drive the Professor to the airport when he xas ready to leav© again for Chicago. The radio interview xas on the university station. The interviewer xas an old acquaintance, for xrhose children the Professor's daughters had served as baby s i t t e r s . His questions were not too different from those the other reporters had asked, so the Professor's answers came easily. By noxr, the s t r i k e xas beginning to seem far axay, particularly xrhen described into a microphone. At the end of the interviexr, the Professor xror-ried that he had not taken i t seriously enough, that some of his replies may have sounded flippant, adapted to the tone in xrhich they were asked. His friend drove him to the Chairman's house, xrhere he xas expected for dinner. This xas not the same Chairman that the Professor had xrorked under, but another of his friends |