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...school-district base, like grade and high schools. They can chop the eventual cost of a B.A. by some $5,000 because tuition is free and the students live at home. Foothill's money comes from its prosperous "college district," a 105-square-mile area that includes Palo Alto and is currently assessed at $512 million. The voters launched Foothill (in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains) with a $10.4 million bond issue, and now support it from property taxes to the tune of some $2,000,000 a year. Less than 25% of its'budget comes...
...Passion Rejected. Their rambling house in Palo Alto quickly began to attract streams of visitors, many of them students and professors from Stanford University. When Michael died of cancer in 1938, Sarah promised that she would leave the bulk of her collection to Stanford. But as time passed, friends began to notice some disturbing changes in Sarah. The beautiful Matisses that had been her life's consuming passion began to seem of no importance to her. It turned out that she was selling off the collection piece by piece at ridiculously low sums to pay for her grandson...
...boys in the group will build a medical dispensary in the small village of Copilco Alto, just 500 yards from the University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexican students from the National University and from Ibero University will assist in the construction...
Three-Way Trade. Sometimes the fish baits the hook himself. While working in Washington on the U.S. budget, for example, Harvard Economist X runs into Minnesota Economist Y, who reports that Stanford Economist Z is sick of "dull" Palo Alto. Presto, X is on the phone to a close Yale friend, who jumps at the chance to sabotage those "upstart Californians." Yale grabs Stanford's Z-precisely what Z himself hoped for when he told Minnesota's Y his troubles. In return, thin-blooded Y may well quit frosty Minnesota to take over...
...night-in-night-out routine of Broadway. Gleason was bored with the show when it was still in Boston, but- bursting onstage saying "Get a load of all the bottle babies," and dancing as lightly as a weather balloon in the stratosphere-he won unreserved praise from such alto-brows as New Yorker Critic Kenneth Tynan and Sir Laurence Olivier. He also won the Antoinette Perry award as the season's outstanding actor in a musical...