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Sprawling over 70 acres of Menlo Park, Calif., the Stanford Research Institute is one of America's largest and best-known think tanks. Its staff of 2,600 highly trained specialists solves problems and does research in nearly every field of human endeavor for both Government and private industry. SRI also does highly classified research for the military, and has worked on counterinsurgency programs in Southeast Asia, explosives technology, chemical and bacteriological warfare and anti-ballistic-missile systems. For its services, SRI last year earned revenues of $70 million. Last week it became apparent that in addition...
...mostly from poor families. "We are at rock bottom," admitted Alfonso D. Holliday II, a black physician who headed the city's school board. At Holliday's prodding, the board turned over the entire school for three years to Behavioral Research Laboratories, a firm based in Menlo Park, Calif...
...staunch supporters in Wichita, Kans.: prominent Lawyer Dale Fair and his wife, who got involved when a Way evangelist helped their daughter off drugs. One of the San Francisco pioneers, Ted Wise, has been so successful with drug cures that he now has a new clinic in Menlo Park. Washington, D.C., movement leader Denny Flanders tells drug users: "You can use drugs after Jesus, but you won't need them. If you become Christians, this is what has to happen." Convert Connie Sue McCartney, 21, of Louisiana, describes how "the devil came to me" and tempted her to return...
Died. Allan Nevins, 80, historian who won, among other tributes, 23 honorary doctorates and two Pulitzer Prizes: of a stroke: in Menlo Park, Calif. After beginning his career as an editorial writer for the New York Evening Post, Nevins gained an early reputation through a number of historical books and in 1931 became De Witt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia. Nevins' first Pulitzer came in 1933 for Grover Cleveland: A Study in Courage, his second in 1937 for Hamilton Fish: The Inner History of the Grant Administration. The last of his eight-volume history...
...BRUCE ATKINSON Menlo Park, Calif...