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was no point in any more Cadillacs and had given a huge 

 tract of land in west Texas as a site for the new institute. 

 As he had included a number of producing wells with the 

 land, it looked as though the income would amount to 

 something between five and ten million dollars a year. The 

 name of the new director, a pharmacologist who had de- 

 veloped one of the better tranquilizers, had been announced, 

 and he was now trying to assemble an outstanding staff 

 representing all the various disciplines supposedly related 

 to mental illness. Starting salaries were widely rumored to 

 be $30,000 a year with free memberships at the local 

 country and barbecue club and a credit card at Neiman- 

 Marcus. There was some uncertainty about the last point 

 but Jack Freedman, who was a classmate of the director 

 and was something of a gossip, had told Bill at the last 

 meeting in Atlantic City that the new institute would need 

 something to balance the attraction felt by so many wives 

 for the wonderful cHmate in La Jolla and Palo Alto. 



At first Bill had been rather flattered to have been in- 

 cluded in the really outstanding group of people said to 

 be under consideration. The more he thought about it 

 though, the more he had come to the conclusion he would 

 turn down the offer if it came. In spite of the fact that the 

 director had made quite a name for himself and had gotten 

 any number of prizes for his tranquihzer. Bill didn't think 

 much of his chemistry. Jane, who in a pinch would go 

 anywhere he wanted to go, really didn't Hke Texas, and 

 the credit card at Neiman-Marcus wouldn't compensate her 

 for having to choose between two candidates for Congress 

 both of whom favored the depletion allowance and neither 

 of whom seemed very clear on civil rights. But the thing 

 that really put him off was the emphasis put by the explora- 

 tory letter on the elimination of all teaching duties. It didn't 

 seem right somehow to tempt a scholar to a new post by 



