ABSTRACT
caltech lived up to my vision of a palm-tree-studded academic Nirvana: A double tier of adobe-colored California-Mission-style laboratory buildings, facing a subtropically landscaped central mall, stretching for half a mile between two Pasadena streets, set off against the sun-lit San Gabriel Mountains peaked by 10,000 foot Mt. Baldy and peopled with brilliant minds, such as Pauling, Beadle, and Max.
