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A city which split from this other one in 1983 was first governed by Barbara Mouton, a former administrator at the radical Nairobi Day School. This city titles a book which credits the growth of the region surrounding it to Frederick Terman, an exemplar of “Military Keynesianism (“KEENZ-ian-ism”).” An obsessive spiritualist who co-founded an institution adjacent to this city may have been murdered by David Starr Jordan. Malcolm Harris’s 2023 book titled for this city discusses a “stock farm” for scientifically breeding horses like Sallie Gardner. Steve Jobs took inspiration for the Mac’s GUI (“gooey”) from a tech demo run by Xerox at this city’s namesake “research center.” The co-founder of a school adjacent to this city made his fortune alongside Charles Crocker and two others as a railroad baron. For 10 points, name this city located next to Stanford University. ■END■
ANSWER: Palo Alto [accept East Palo Alto; accept Palo Alto Research Center; accept Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World]
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