Word: cafeteria
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...Seeing a Cafeteria. The children, both white and black, seem to have benefited. Most of the Negroes chosen for the experiment are from good homes and have parents who are eager to enlarge their children's horizons. Initial studies suggest that the children make above-average improvement in their new schools. "The teaching here is so much better and the classes are small," says Roxbury's Lana Dabney, 16, of Brookline High School...
...older children at first marvel at such hitherto unknown educational luxuries as swimming pools, well-equipped gyms and driver-training courses. Tots find the suburban facilities wonderful but a bit scary. One third-grade boy looked into the big cafeteria in West Hartford's King Philip School and refused to walk in. "I'm not hungry," he protested. Coaxed inside by a white classmate, he ate with gusto; he had only hesitated because he had never seen a cafeteria before...
Honda now spends all his time and energy perfecting products in the company's research and development labs on the outskirts of Tokyo. Balding, quick to laugh, he wears a white mechanic's coat, eats in the company cafeteria with subordinates who affectionately call him Oyaji (Pop). "When I am wearing the white coat," says Honda, "I'm just one of the employees." Although Honda retains a controlling 7% of the company's stock, his only contact with the downtown Tokyo office is a monthly telephone conversation with Fujisawa, "to decide policy" that usually lasts five...
...result of all this is that since the autumn of 1963, Miles has raised and spent $1,250,000 on capital improvements. A student union and cafeteria building have been completed, a science building constructed at a cost of $500,000, and one of the school's old structures rehabilitated...
...interplanetary dust on a man or vehicle in space, Engineer Vernon Rogallo devised an instrument so sensitive that it registered the force of a single grain of salt dropped less than one-half of an inch. Then, at the NASA Ames research center in California, Rogallo overheard a cafeteria conversation between two biologists: How could they record the heartbeat of a six-day-old chick embryo without piercing the egg shell...