Word: palo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Formerly Stanford University Hospital, but cut adrift when the university moved its medical school to the Palo Alto campus (TIME, Sept...
...collection of deep thinkers pondering truth in a cornfield last week near Palo Alto, Calif.? See EDUCATION, Time to Think...
...central California beckons like Elysium. The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, initial-named the Casbah, has been called "a resort for academic hipsters, a dreamy pad for a bunch of non-celibate monks." Its stunning redwood-and-glass buildings, sprawled elegantly on a green hill above Palo Alto, make it look like a motel for Rolls-Royce owners. It comes close to being a boondoggle-and one of the world's most exciting havens for deep thinkers...
...another year while staff members try to find a charitable organization interested in keeping it open. After that, the hospital is on its own. Its 162 fulltime staffers and its 520 part-time volunteer clinicians (most of whom have sizable city practices) must either move or commute to Palo Alto or lose their Stanford affiliation. The upshot: when classes open at the university next week, 75% of the hospital's clinical staff will be new, and some doctors feel that the talent available in the suburbs is no match for what Stanford has left behind in San Francisco...
Last week in Palo Alto, amid the pomp of an academic convocation, President J. E. Wallace Sterling dedicated Stanford's handsome new $21 million medical center (complete with 434-bed hospital), designed by Manhattan Architect Edward D. Stone (TIME, March 31, 1958). For the university's med students, who can now fulfill their degree requirements without commuting to another campus, the center is an unqualified blessing. But in San Francisco medical circles, the center is an object of much discussion and no little concern...