The conference room was indeed crowded with newsmen and technicians but there was a big oval table, plenty of chairs, and several smaller tables.  Mike was spotted at once and Sanforth's protests did not keep them from crowding in on him.  But Mike's flying wedge of amateur Amazons got him as far as the big table; Jubal sat him against it with Dorcas and Jill in chairs flanking him and the Fair Witness and Miriam seated behind him.  Once this was done, Jubal made no attempt to fend oft questions or pictures.  Mike had been warned that he would meet lots of people and that many of them would do strange things and Jubal had most particularly warned him to take no sudden actions (such as causing persons or things to go away, or to stop) unless Jill told him to.