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Before the game, Nixon's entourage drove out to the rolling campus of Stanford University (enrollment: 8,760), Herbert Hoover's alma mater in Palo Alto. Dozens trailed after him into the auditorium, where 1,700 jammed the seats and another 1,000 overflowed out on the steps and lawn. The place exploded in cheers as he strode onstage. At the question period he invited barbed ones ("As I said to Khrushchev in Moscow, I've been insulted by experts-so go right ahead"), and got one. Could a man who used innuendoes about political opponents provide...
...California's burgeoning electronics industry, the news ordinarily would have gone unnoticed: Palo Alto's Allen Manufacturing Co., freshly moved into a new and larger plant, was about to be incorporated. What made this unusual was the company's president: 19-year-old Joseph Stevens Allen, who founded Allen Manufacturing at 17, has turned it into a rapidly growing firm that this year expects to do a $250,000 business, has an order backlog of $150,000. Said Steve Allen last week as he sat behind a large desk in his paneled office: "I'm trying...
Eleven years ago, the old gentleman was put out to academic pasture at Stanford University. At 76, he likes to sit about knitting afghan squares; he makes popovers and feijoa jam at his modest home on the Palo Alto campus. He owns one business suit and supports a rusty 1946 Ford on his pension of $3,200 a year...
...Formerly Stanford University Hospital, but cut adrift when the university moved its medical school to the Palo Alto campus (TIME, Sept...
...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...