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This was another Grove passion: opera. Seduced by Carmen's "Toreador March" as a youngster, Grove dreamed of becoming an opera singer. He took lessons and sang around school. And in the weeks before he fled Hungary, Grove and a handful of classmates sang the first, murderously lovely scene of Don Giovanni in a Budapest recital. Grove can't remember if he took the part of the footman Leporello (who beseeches, "Potessi almeno di qua partir!" [I wish I could escape!]) or the blackguard Don Giovanni (who bellows, "Misiero! attendi se vuio morir!" [Wretch, stay if you would...
When the Soviets entered Budapest, Grove knew that was the time to leave. "There were growing rumors of people being rounded up on the street," he recalls. "I said, 'I could sit on my ass here and go out for a loaf of bread one day, and you'll never see me again. Or I can get out.' In today's terminology, one had an upside and the other didn't." Grove, not for the last time, bet his ass on the upside...
...United States, and I expected there would be some of the same because I was an immigrant. And there wasn't." From his spot in a cramped one-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn, where he was housed by an aunt and uncle who had left Hungary in the '30s, Grove devoured Eisenhower's America...
...speaking English, and I'm reading Faulkner!") But when he graduated in 1960, the New York Times trumpeted the success. His professors knew they'd hear from him again. "I was a little astonished by that kind of ambition," says Morris Kolodney, now 86, a CCNY professor who was Grove's freshman adviser. "There's some advantage in being hungry...
...moved out to California, where Grove entered the Ph.D. program at the University of California, Berkeley. Again he was a star. When he graduated, he had the pick of American research corporations. Grove narrowed his choices: prestigious Bell Laboratories or Fairchild Semiconductor, a start-up staffed by a handful of brilliant engineers. Grove, who says he has "excellent antennae," listened to the Berkeley buzz and came back with a sense of the future: Fairchild...