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...Homecoming Dance" at the Willard Straight Cafeteria and other parties in the various fraternities...
PLANS FOR SUPERLINERS of up to 90,000 tons to carry 6,000 passengers across Atlantic in dormitory and cafeteria style at $50-$100 each are being considered by U.S., European governments. U.S. Maritime Administration has requests from private businessmen to subsidize two big cut-rate tourist liners (total cost: about $270 million), while Belgian authorities are debating whether to spend $20 million to enlarge Zeebrugge harbor to accommodate seagoing giants...
Legs Crossed, Jackets Buttoned. Network rivalry hit a new peak. CBS posted a sign for its staffers: "Under no circumstances are you to patronize the NBC cafeteria." TV Reporter Vince Garrity caused an outraged flurry by flaunting ABC lapel pins in range of rival cameras. NBC went so far as to hire a professional lip reader to try to catch out-of-reach conversation, and ABC issued instructions to its staff: "Be sure when you are on camera, that you sit up straight, have your legs crossed modestly, and your jacket buttoned...
Inside the factory executives and plant police set up cots, stocked the cafeteria with several weeks' supply of frozen meats and vegetables, and mounted cameras at the gates to record the struggle to stop incoming cars. Few production workers were able to get through. The union offered to give 4,000 nonproduction-line workers, including engineers, safe-conduct through the picket lines provided they turned out no planes. But the company flatly refused the I.A.M. offer...
Says Coggeshall: "I should like to see a self-service wing set up in a hospital, for patients who don't need all this expensive special equipment and service. Those who are in for diagnosis or convalescing may well be able to go to a cafeteria and service themselves-and enjoy company at their meals. Some of them might go home at night. I believe that those who are not incapacitated should not be treated-and charged-as though they were...