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...Negro schools. When Owens arrived, Selma was down to barely 100 students, including some still completing high school, and its five buildings were going to ruin. On 21 acres of flat land where brown cows still graze, the school consisted of two aging red brick dormitories, a tiny red cafeteria and a dilapidated classroom building called Dinkins Hall. "The floors were so bad you got splinters if you wore thin shoes," Owens recalls. There was another academic building, but it had to be torn down at once, says Owens, "for insurance reasons-but even more for esthetic reasons...
...Journal building's fourth-floor cafeteria, Sentinel and Journal staffers sit, by choice, at separate tables; after hours they tipple at different hangouts. One week, when Sentinel Reporter Bob Dishon was offered an advance copy of the city's new $111 million community-renewal program on the condition that he hold the story until 11 Saturday morning, Dishon refused; the release time was too late for the Saturday morning Sentinel, but it would nicely accommodate the evening Journal. Scrambling furiously, Dishon pieced the story together from other sources and published it in the Saturday paper, hours ahead...
While 6,500 members queued up to sip interprandial Scotch and sup on cafeteria boeuf bourguignon, Director James J. Rorimer showed off a colonnaded Spanish Renaissance patio, donated by the late, former Met president George Blumenthal, and the new Thomas J. Watson library, whose 155,000 volumes make it the largest art-literature stack in the Western Hemisphere. Topping off his week, Rorimer received the city's Medallion of Honor from Mayor Wagner...
Noonday at "Pali." One anthropologically absorbing place to watch these characteristics in interplay is the wall-less, roofed area for cafeteria tables at Pacific Palisades High School, bordering on Sunset Boulevard. "Pali," as the kids call it, is a new, $7,000,000, red brick campus lor 2,100 upper-middle-class students. "These are the students' cars," says English Teacher Jeanne Hernandez, pointing to a fast collection of "wheels" ranging up to Jags, "and there are the teachers' cars," pointing to a sedate group of compacts and the like. "It's so lush here that...
...natives observe a rigid noonday ritual. The social elite-a breezy clique called the Palisades-Brentwood Singing and Drinking Association-hold court at cafeteria tables reserved by custom for them. Near by, like ladies in waiting, two plain girls snatch at conversational crumbs tossed by a pair of homecoming queens. At another table are the "social rejects"-girls on the fringes of the elite whose boy friends are now tired of them. "They are still allowed to go to parties," explains a guide, "but they aren't in on the really big decisions, like who the elite will back...