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...accomplished by analyzing stocks. In July, Lewis, a former employee of InfoCorp, a market-research company, decided that many computer firms needed counseling but could ill afford the big firms' high fees. Working out of her Sunnyvale, Calif., home, she formed a mini- consulting agency, now located in Palo Alto. Her fees: $70 for 15 minutes and $50 for each additional quarter-hour. An entire day of counseling costs $1,000. Her 40 regular customers get cut rates...
According to an article in last Sunday's "Parade Magazine," a nationally syndicated weekly magazine, Stanford had lured a straight 'A' violinist to Palo Alto by offering the use of a Stradivarius violin in the university's Lang Collection of Historical Musical Instruments...
...family of four in Palo Alto, Calif., with an income of $306,000. They now pay $31,200 in mortgage interest on their home and an additional $13,000 interest on a vacation house and other loans. Their total property taxes are $7,200. The husband pays $20,000 in alimony, and the family donates $10,000 to charity...
...Americans, inevitably, tell sad tales of money running out, no matter what the rate of exchange. Stephanie Marcus, 20, of Palo Alto, Calif., was sitting glumly in the waiting room of the Munich railroad station not long ago, pondering the fact that she had a plane ticket home from London but no money to get there from Munich. "I had hoped to get a job of some kind in Italy, but I hadn't set up anything beforehand," she said ruefully. "Then somebody picked my pocket in Rome, and the problem got serious." (Yes, she is safely back...
...week of electronic eavesdropping at the U.S. embassy in Moscow has again raised questions about the sites chosen for the new Soviet and American embassies being built in each country. After six years of negotiations ending in a 1969 agreement, the Soviets were provided with a location on Mount Alto in northwest Washington, D.C., one of the highest spots in the area, while the U.S. was left to build in low, marshy ground near the Moscow River...