Both CalTech and Cornell want to keep Professor Feynman on staff, so they get into a sort of "bidding war" over him, each trying to "one-up" the other, in terms of pay, benefits, and working conditions. Feynman keeps drifting back and forth between the two indecisively.
He decides he prefers working at Caltech (since everyone there is working in the sciences and because it is in a major city)......
