Word: palo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...basic trouble with today's hospitals is that, like today's doctors, they have been geared to crisis care. In fact, says Palo Alto's grand old man, Dr. Russel V. Lee (father of Philip and other M.D. Lees), 30% of the patients in a hospital at any one time should not be there. Either they have been admitted for what are really diagnostic procedures, to gain insurance coverage, or they are past the acute stage of their illness and should be in some sort of convalescent or other extended-care facility, in which the costs would...
Packard and William Hewlett, a Stanford classmate ('34), started the electronics company in a Palo Alto garage in 1939 with a $600 stake. Their first sale of any consequence was to Walt Disney, who bought nine audio oscillators to help create the sound effect for Fantasia. With Hewlett as the original engineering brains and Packard as a fiercely dynamic manager, the company has become the world's largest maker of electronic measuring devices. In the postwar era of computers, television and solid-state circuitry, its sales have grown to $269 million annually. It is a rare...
Student Target. Three years ago, Packard began a series of company commitments to better the lot of underskilled blacks and Mexican-Americans. He started training programs for the hardcore unemployed and used Hewlett-Packard resources to help set up East Palo Alto Electronics, owned and run by blacks. A Stanford trustee since 1954, he has been a target of student protest because of Hewlett-Packard's defense contracts and his seat on the board of General Dynamics. To many dissidents he seemed the personification of the military-industrial complex. Yet during a campus sit-in last...
Arlington's Tom Spengler contributes sarcasm to cross country joke sessions and consistent, unspectacular running to meets. Quiet, serious Howie Foye combines with lanky Max Schweizer and "Palo Alto Fats" Enscoe to form a solid supporting cast of sophomores...
Headed by Dr. Philip R. Lee, who was an expert practitioner and careful prescriber in Palo Alto before he joined HEW, the group declared that "appropriate prescribing" means "the right drug for the right patient at the right time, in the right amounts, and with due consideration of relative costs." The failure of many doctors to achieve this ideal, said the group, traces back to medical schools, most of which give only one course in drugs and their use. Later, in practice, the physician gets most of his information on drugs from manufacturers' promotional material...