When I was about thirty, I just couldn't do it any more. But one night in the early 1970's, we were together in Monterey at one of the first elaborate dog-and-pony shows for technology stocks—then known as “The Monterey Conference”— put on by the American Electronics Association. At the Monterey Con- ference, Father exhibited another quality I never forgot. The conference announced a dinner contest. There was a card at each place setting, and each person was to write down what he or she thought the Dow Jones Industrials would do the next day, which is, of course, a silly exercise. The cards
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