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...really enjoyed the one night at home. It should have been longer, but then, business is business. Meeting up with the Junior Davis Cup Team in Palo Alto was a little nerve-wracking, because I hadn't gone through the regular qualifying rounds and I felt that I had to prove myself to the rest of the guys. I think I did it in the first tournament, which was the Hard Court National in Burlingame...
Health Association Palo Alto, Calif...
...sexual selectivity. Condoms may reduce the risk of infection. One thing that will surely help is better informed physicians. Says one Seattle doctor: "A lot of women and doctors believe everything down there is a yeast infection." To reduce misinformation about herpes, the American Social Health Association of Palo Alto, Calif, distributes a newsletter called The Helper and is setting up HELP chapters around...
...Fascinated by the savage beauty of the lava's shapes, Barragán and a partner bought 865 acres of the land and began to transform it. Each plot was to be a walled garden, celebrating the lava's strange forms, the cacti and the twisted trees known as palo bobo (silly tree). Each house was to be as simple as possible and should not occupy more than 10% of the plot. Steps and pathways were carved into the rocks. Lava was used to form the walls; for variety, they were sometimes stained rust, pale green, pale blue...
...Palo Alto, Bok sprit his time among the Phi Kappa sigma fraternity, his studies and what he now calls a "mediocre game" of varsity basketball. Tall and athletic, Bok, as one classmate from 1951 recalls, "was into a good time" but was undecided about his future. Eventually, Bok opted to return to the East Coast and--following his father, now an associate justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court with a liberal reputation--headed to Harvard...