Word: perkinses
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After Howard’s first interruption, event moderator and Asia Center Director Dwight H. Perkins, who is also Burbank professor of political economy, rushed to the podium and requested that she return to her seat.
In some ways Churchill--a sweeter man, more exterior, spontaneous, decent, forgiving--emerges as a more attractive human being than Roosevelt, whose magnificently confident facade concealed a character capable of immense deceit, chilling detachment and cunning superficiality. Roosevelt and Churchill had become fast friends in the early days of the...
DIED. EUGENE KLEINER, 80, gentlemanly, Austrian-born Silicon Valley engineer and venture capitalist; of heart failure; in Los Altos Hills, Calif. In 1957, with $3,500 and seven colleagues, he came up with a way to mass-produce silicon transistors, a discovery that opened the door to developing desktop computers...
“ I see the people I know who live in Mather and Dunster cutting through the parking lot just as much as I see them walking around it. A lot of times I feel more comfortable cutting through,” said Mather House resident Tanya F. Perkins...
DIED. EUGENE KLEINER, 80, engineer and Silicon Valley pioneer whose venture-capital firm helped establish Sun Microsystems, Compaq and Amazon.com; in Los Altos Hills, California. Kleiner, who fled his native Austria in 1938, co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957, which developed a technique for mass producing silicon transistors. Fifteen years...