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Briggs Cage was scheduled to open at last year's Stanford game, but construction wasn't complete, so the Crimson went to Palo Alto instead, and lost. The arena could have been inaugurated at the beginning of this year, but University officials wanted to wait until the Stanford game because President Bok played for the Cardinals as an undergraduate...
...different way of looking at things." Solitude may, however, have bred ambition. McCollum was stunned to learn that the young loner, needing parts for class projects, picked up the phone and called Burroughs collect in Detroit and Bill Hewlett, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, over in Palo Alto...
...wrath of the Justice Department's trustbusters, had sold licenses for only $25,000 to anyone who wanted to make transistors, and the scramble was on to profit from them. William Shockley, one of the transistor's three inventors, returned to his California home town, Palo Alto, to form his own company in the heart of what would become known as Silicon Valley. In Dallas, a young, aggressive maker of exploration gear for the oil industry, Texas Instruments, had already hired away another Bell Labs star, Gordon Teal, and was churning out the little gadgets. So were...
...good to have a mother and father figure to talk to and consult with," says Andres Fajardo '86, a native of Palo Alto, California. "I can get advice without having to feel as if I'm going to an information service...
Ella Gibson Palo Alto, Calif...