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...blinking, Mallory used his 20-year savings of $10,000 to buy a one-acre lot adjoining Buffalo High School. Leasing it to the district for $1 a year, he borrowed $32,000 on his signature, bought some surplus Army barracks, and built a school annex housing a library, cafeteria and home economics classroom. While paying off the debt with proceeds from the cafeteria and athletic events concessions, Mallory borrowed again to buy lumber from an abandoned Army hospital, used it to construct a science and industrial arts building costing $11,000. Then in 1957, to solve the housing shortage...
America's answer to the threat of too much professionalism at the undergraduate level has been to break up the specialties and give the student a bit of each. This solution is not generally admired in Britain. The everage British don associates the elective, cafeteria style, reminiscent of the four-troughed circular platters one must carry around at Harvard, and contrasts this with an honest meal of roast meat and Yorkshire pudding...
Added another, "It just plain isn't very exciting. Hard work, yes. But not exciting. This place has a cafeteria view of education; they just shove the knowledge in front of you and let you take what you want. It is so passive, so uninteresting, so mechanical you want to go nuts, sometimes...
...fight mob began to gather. It was always like that in the old days, when there were fights worth going to and fighters worth talking about. Then the mob gathered on Jacobs Beach, the sidewalk at 49th and Broadway. Now they sit at grey Formica tables in the Garden Cafeteria gulping matzo-ball soup, or at Jack Dempsey's bar sipping Rob Roys. Promoter Jack Solomon was in from London to see the fight. Lester Collins, ten years a manager and now a California businessman flew to New York because "I heard so much about Clay...
This sort of thing is the cause of considerable resentment among Rusk's many admirers within the State Department. In the department cafeteria last week, two young Foreign Service officers engaged in an earnest lunchtime conversation. "How can he stand it?" asked one of them angrily. "Every time he turns around, it's Bundy or Bobby, Bobby or Bundy. Why doesn't he walk out and let those White House brain-trusters louse things up? That's what I would do." The other man nodded solemnly. "I would too," he said...