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Show -399- Chapter Twenty-Eight Again a picture of the Professor appeared in a San Francisco newspaper? This time i t was a ten-year-old photo that had been printed on one of his book jackets? The story that accompanied the photo told how the Professor had set out for the weekly meeting of the striking American Federation of Teachers, but had never arrived. His car was found parked a t Vista Point on the north end of the Golden Gate Bridge? There was no note, but the keys were s t i l l in the car? and the police assumed that he had jumped from the bridge? The Coast Guard patrol boats were on the lookout for his body. The Professor's wife insisted that he was not the type to take his own l i f e ? His two daughters (one of whom had flown to San Francisco from her home in Chicago) agreed. His son-in-law, a designer for a local t h e a t r i c a l repertory company? agreed publicly? but privately was reported as saying that his father-in-law had not been anything like himself since his a r r e s t for the obstruction of justice a week e a r l i e r when he had been struck on the head by a member of the Tac Squad wielding a r i o t stick? He thought maybe the blow on the back of the head might have affected some change? When? a t the end of the f i r s t week, his body had not yet been found in the bay or along the beaches outside the Golden Gate? rumor began to spread that he was s t i l l alive? One of his friends swore that he had seen him walk past |