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...Think Tank." In one sense, Stanford simply hitched its star to West Coast prosperity. The university's vast campus was tailormade for "think tank" operations like those of its off-campus affiliate, the Stanford Research Institute, which serves everyone from the Bank of America to a Nevada gambling casino. Led by Provost Frederick E. Terman, the university's own first-rate engineering school produced such electronic inventions as the klystron tube, which in turn spurred a space-age complex around Palo Alto that now comprises more than 200 companies. Today the campus proper boasts a 500-acre industrial...
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...Nevada. In a predominantly Democratic state, colorless, careful Senator Alan Bible seems certain to beat Cattle Rancher William B. Wright, a Goldwater Republican...
Prime reason for the trustbusters' belated move was a suspicion that the three companies had an unwritten agreement on marketing areas. Richfield, healthy once again and now the 18th largest U.S. oil company, has 4,600 service stations in California, Oregon, Washington, Utah, Idaho, Nevada and Arizona, and controls about 10% of the gasoline market in those states. But never since it came out of bankruptcy has it tried to spread eastward again. Similarly, Sinclair (the nation's ninth largest oil company) and Cities Service (tenth) have stayed out of western markets almost entirely on the avowed ground...
...economy may be sluggish, but not in Denver, where the influx of tourists and Titan missile contracts has helped to boost the value of new construction by 90% this year. The sun also shines on Hawaii, where tourism is up 19%. In Nevada, personal income is running 13% higher than last year's levels. The gaps in the New England economy, left by the wholesale departure of the textile industry, are being filled by electronics. Personal income in the area is up almost 7% from a year...