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Perhaps the most financially savvy of the independents is Windham Hill, a Palo Alto, Calif., company started nine years ago by Carpenter-Guitarist William Ackerman, then 26. He borrowed $5 from each of 60 friends to record an album of his own called In Search of the Turtle's Navel. From the outset, Ackerman groomed his disks for the baby boom generation, an audience that he felt was growing tired of rock. He recorded melodic albums like Pianist George Winston's Autumn, which cost just $1,720 to produce but has sold more than 500,000 copies. Some critics regard...
...Palo Alto, Calif...
...treat once it is diagnosed, the key to preventing its spread--and its sometimes serious consequences--is better detection. That could be provided by two recently developed diagnostic tests that are both inexpensive and rapid. One, called MicroTrak, has been marketed for a year by the Syva Co. of Palo Alto, Calif., and provides a diagnosis in less than half an hour. The other, devised by Abbott Laboratories of North Chicago, Ill., takes from 3 1/2 to four hours but is better suited for testing large numbers of people. It became available nationwide last week...
...presidential Supertoss, as Reagan's football coin flip was called, originated with Michael Deaver, the soon-to-depart White House deputy chief of staff. It was obviously designed to tie the President to the event around which millions of Americans planned their weekend, Super Bowl XIX in Palo Alto, Calif. For a very few, those plans called for the near impossible: live attendance at both the game and the Flipper's swearing-in ceremony in Washington Monday morning. Congressman and former Buffalo Bills Quarterback Jack Kemp, for one, swore he could make it back to Washington aboard...
...Palo Alto, Calif...