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The Chainpion Spark Plug Motorcycle Classics at Ontario Oct.4,5 ICHA*lo~1 & 2¥.t MU .O..aJ saw. "We 're very busy today. Steve Me Que en is co m in g to see the Governor. n In th e next room a tel eph one rang. A go verno r's aide answered it. "Hey , I'm o utsi de. Wha t are all those press people do ing th er e?" the world's number o ne leadi ng man whisp ered. ' ~That's just to be exp ec te d. Come on in . Every bod y is waiting fo r you." Steve handed the telephone back to the secretary and ges tured to hi s sidekicks. Nobody made the unshorn biker as he threaded his way th r ough news hawks and hens and every capitol secretary with enough clout to finagle eyeball room in the Governor's foyer. He sidled up to a short black, pretty secretary who seemed to be guarding the door to Gerry Brown's chambers. "Hey, I gotta get in to see the Governor," he stage-whispered. "Do you have an appointment to see the Governor?" she responded automatically. "Yes. -, "What time is your ap pointment with the Governor?" IITwo o 'clock:' It was two o'clock at that p oint in time, the p re t ty secretary no ted. Her eyes wi dened as her jaw began to drop. Steve McQueen clappe d his hand over the pre t ty girl 's mouth and said, "you can spell cool, can 't y o u? " Vigorous nodding. "Then that's what you're gonna have to be . 'Cause y ou go tta get m e in there without any body out here knowing. Okay?" More vigorous n oddin g. He released th e girl an d th ey made th eir entrance without fanfare. • • • * ••• "What did yo u say to the Go vernor ?" I asked McQueen. "Don't print this, but I asked him if he had the balls to take on th e fe deral ~overnment over this helmet issue." (Note - whenever anyone tells me not to print something, / automatically assume that he means fo r me to print it.) "Well, Steve, here you are the wo rld's number one movie star, I mean, knowing that you love m oto rcy cles and all they stand for, wh y are you giving up y o ur privacy to take on this role of lobbyist for the cause? " "Well Chuck, motorcycles have been good for me, and my kids, and I see where the government's doing their best to eliminate them. So I got to thinking how I co uld do something to stop that from happening and I got in touch with th e AMA and fo und out they are already working on it, so I'm helping th em . They are helping me , too . I don't have a press agent. Rob and Gene have bee n doing all that. I don 't want any publicity , I just want to h elp. We go t together and figured the best way to do th at is if I can get more of th e bi kers in th e country to write le tt ers to th ese politicians .. . " "Wo uld you be wil ling to go out front, like in D.C ., and take the media heat off the rest of us? 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