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...George W. Baer, 21, son of a Palo Alto auto dealer, was captain of Stanford's freshman water polo team, a key man in Stanford dramatic productions, a member of the Institute of International Relations. A history major, Baer spends his summers as a Palo Alto lifeguard, his winters making an almost straight A average...
Died. Dr. Lewis Madison Terman, 79, longtime Stanford University psychologist, who developed the widely used Stanford-Binet IQ test in 1916, followed up his work with a 30-year study of 1,400 California schoolchildren with IQs past the threshold of genius (140-plus); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Palo Alto, Calif. Tester Terman's findings: his bright children grew up healthier, slightly wealthier and better employed than the average child, but the group contained "no mathematician of truly first rank, no university president . . . gives no promise of contributing any Aristotles, Newtons, Tolstoys ... In achieving eminence, much depends...
...sprawling California 29th congressional district that they are fighting for. The 2gth, undisputed preserve of G.O.P. Congressman John Phillips until he announced his retirement last November, spreads across 11,000 violently contrasting square miles. It includes the lush irrigated ranches (cotton, fancy vegetables, dates) of the Imperial, Coachella and Palo Verde valleys and Marslike desert mountains and flats. It in cludes the onetime citrus wonderland of Riverside County, now being turned into a thriving business area by the overflow of Los Angeles-bound migrants...
...shirted figure burst into the Michigan State backfield and almost blocked a quick kick. On the sideline a rumpled, prowling man in brown slacks and unbuttoned shirt scowled and grabbed a telephone. "Who came in on that?" he demanded from an unseen watcher high in the stands over Palo Alto's Stanford Stadium. Coach Hugh Duffy Daugherty. master craftsman of the most intricate offensive in modern football, was at his appointed task of trying to keep track of every block and tackle of every player on the field...
Jebbar Subbagh in a blossom-strewn ceremony at the First Methodist Church in Palo Alto. In time a baby son was born, and the local minister christened him Paul. Except for the homesickness in Abdul's heart, all might have been well, but at last (in Helen's words), "Nothing would do but we had to go and visit his mother in Baghdad...