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...proceeded to splash about in the social life there. He made quite a hit at first-entertaining lavishly on his estate, allowing the horsy set of Woodside to canter over his acres. He gave $50,000 to build an indoor riding ring at Stanford University in nearby Palo Alto. Even when the university turned down a daughter for admission, Galvin let the contribution stand...
...also revitalized Philco's computer division, which had missed out on the boom in smaller business computers; this year Philco will begin leasing its new medium-sized 4100 computer. No Philco division has profited more from Ford's takeover than Western Development Laboratories in Palo Alto, Calif., one of the nation's leading experts in telemetry and ground-to-outer-space communications, which is receiving one-third of the $40 million that Ford is currently pumping into Philco. Western Development is now expanding its laboratories, is planning to help build a middle-altitude communications satellite, and will...
JAMES A. NEWTON Palo Alto, Calif...
...satisfying day's work is just puttering about in a laboratory. Somewhat to their bemusement, Packard and Hewlett now find themselves running a $100 million corporation that won't stop growing. In the 24 years since they went into business together, their Hewlett-Packard Co. of Palo Alto, Calif., has grown from a combined office-laboratory in a one-car garage into the world's biggest manufacturer of electronic measuring devices. Last year, true to a growth pattern the company has maintained for almost a decade, Hewlett-Packard's sales rose 25% to $109 million...
...they strive to preserve the creative informality of their old garage days. Even though Hewlett-Packard operates out of a modern six-building complex in Stanford's industrial park and has subsidiaries all over the U.S. and Europe, only six of the company's top executives in Palo Alto have private offices. The rest work in a giant, noisy bullpen together with clerks and secretaries...