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Billy Lucas had been a pathetic, apparently hopeless invalid ever since the third day after his birth in Palo Alto, Calif. That was three years ago. Billy's face was expressionless, his eyes never seemed to move, he could barely raise his eyelids. He could hardly swallow, and for two years he had to be fed through a tube. His arms were so feeble that he could not lift a spoon to his mouth, and he had to have steel braces to be able to stand...
Sears, who spent his undergraduate years at Stanford before going to Yale for a Ph.D., grew up in Palo Alto, California. His father was also a Stanford professor...
DEAN R. CRESAP Palo Alto, Calif...
...mere top-secret. Despite these precautions . . . the southern France invasion (named ANVIL) was notorious as the worst-kept secret of the war. I recall hearing Neapolitan street urchins in July calling at members of our combat divisions: "Hey, Joe, when you go to France-next month?" GILBERT L. BURTON Palo Alto, Calif...
Joan Stocker, 18, was fed up. She and her husband, a U.S. Air Force sergeant, had been living in England for several months and boarding with English families. One day, from Newmarket in Suffolk, she sent a sizzling letter to her hometown paper, the Palo Alto (Calif.) Times. "We are writing," she said, "to let you people back home know just what is going on in the minds of the English . . . They believe [Americans] all have big houses, strings of cars, closets full of clothes and more money than we know what to do with. They charge us all fabulous...