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Acknowledgments -- Beginning -- The early days in Adams and University of 4 Massachusetts in Amherst -- Reminiscences of the early days in Berkeley -- The start of a new department in Vancouver -- What is Japan doing right to get all that -- Money? : will they lose it? -- The bond-stock earnings...