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elation. It took no more out of them than it took out of me to go into a department store, if as much.

I suppose this is a defensive mechanism.

I suppose they couldn't have survived without it. I was exhausted, especially since I had flown across the country the same day.

The Next day, as I recall it, Stevenson went to drive around Mountain Park, which is a large piece of real estate that Andre Meyer and Roger Stevens had bought. It's the largest piece of real estate between Beverly Hills and the Pacific Ocean. It's the size of Manhattan Island, but most of it is very mountainous. I have a one and a half percent interest in the land which I expect to make a great deal of money out of in my old age.

This is for development.

Yes. And we drove around this together.

Perhaps that day or the next we departed for San Francisco where he was also going to make a speech before the Economic Club or whatever the important club in San Francisco is, and he was also going to speak for the Lasker Award winners there. The winners that time were Crick, Watson and Wilkins, who had between them figured out the crystalline structure of DNA, which is one of the great triumphs in the biological sciences. He made a good speech but the members of the American Public