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Show -345- be tomorroxr. The t r a f f i c xas too sxrift here for him to see if the pickets included anyone he knexr. He d i d n ' t remember to turn his car radio on u n t i l he had passed Stonestoxm. It xas s t i l l tuetyd to the all-nexrs station, so the nexrs came on immediately. He had almost reached the approach to the bridge before he heard anything about the s t r i k e , and then I t came through a press conference xrith the Governor, reported live from Sacramento. The striking students, the Governor said, should be kept off the campus. If they persisted in marching each day, the police should go in and arrest them as trespassors. The Professor cursed under his breath. "The God-darned know-it-all!" he said to himself. He kept the radio on the remainder of the xay to his house, but got no more xrord of the s t r i k e except for a brief statement saying that the Board of Trustees had appointed a five-man committee, including the txro Bay Area members, to negotiate a settlement of the faculty s t r i k e xrith the Union officers. "But," the announcement xrent on to say, "The chairman of the board, xrho i s from Los Angeles, has stated that the Board xrill not consider i t s e l f bound by any agreement arrived a t by the committ e e ." When he pulled up before his house, the Professor had a premonition that something about i t xas different. He had gained txro hours on the flight xrestxard, so i t xas s t i l l early in the afternoon. The rain had stopped, but the skies were low |
