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...Palo Alto, Bok sprit his time among the Phi Kappa sigma fraternity, his studies and what he now calls a "mediocre game" of varsity basketball. Tall and athletic, Bok, as one classmate from 1951 recalls, "was into a good time" but was undecided about his future. Eventually, Bok opted to return to the East Coast and--following his father, now an associate justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court with a liberal reputation--headed to Harvard...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: The Graying of Derek Bok | 4/9/1980 | See Source »

DIED. Jay Anson, 58, scriptwriter whose allegedly factual 1977 thriller, The Amityville Horror, about a family's experiences in a haunted house on New York's Long Island, sold millions of copies before being made into a film last year; after heart surgery; in Palo Alto, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 24, 1980 | 3/24/1980 | See Source »

...Palo Alto, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 17, 1979 | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

...technology. To master Western technology, they must send their young to be educated in the West. And that invariably means diluting their culture. Progress means better medicine and other mitigations of life's harshness, of course, but it also means the young women returning from Paris or Palo Alto in short skirts instead of chadors; it means 30% inflation, pollution, an open door to all the depressing vitality of the junk culture; it means the young leaving the villages and becoming infested with all kinds of Hefnerian tastes for hi-fis and forbidden pleasures. It is sometimes difficult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Islam Against the West? | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

...very ordinary person," he said last week. "I never dreamed that my letter to Senator Percy would ever be published." In fact, publication was all but inevitable, since the letter somehow reached half a dozen papers. First the Peninsula Times Tribune (circ. 65,800) of Palo Alto, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Letter Bomb | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

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