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...morning, 22-year-old William McGinnis came driving toward the plant in his 1937 Ford sedan; it was his first day of work as dishwasher in the plant cafeteria. With him was Victor McDaniel, a cafeteria counterman. When McGinnis reached the union's roadblocks, he swung off the road and skittered across a field of rye. Rifles and shotguns roared from the embankment. "The noise was awful," said McGinnis. "We heard the bullets hitting and then my neck went numb." There were 47 holes in the right side of the car. McDaniel, struck twice in the head and also...
...student-faculty group protested the ban, and a few weeks later brought Phillips to Ann Arbor, where he spoke to an off-campus audience of 300 crowded into a cafeteria, with 1000 people turned away outside...
While Harvard Square is one of Greater Boston's cleanest, it nevertheless sustains a handful of punks who make their living exclusively on bookmaking. Police assert that a certain "gentleman" operates openly from a table in a large cafeteria on Massachusetts Avenue. Plainclothesmen have kept an eye on him for a long time, but they can't touch this pimply-faced operator because he uses the prevalent "telephone" system. This means that he either stands outside or sits inside the cafeteria with a pocketfull of nickels, and phones in bets as soon as they are given to him. The mere...
...annex to the student union building rose, complete with bowling alleys, music and art rooms, banquet hall, barbershop, cafeteria, lounges, student-activities offices and hotel rooms for visitors. Near by, six new dormitories went up, along with eleven low-rent apartment houses for faculty members. A modernized stadium echoed with the yells of 60,000 Michigan State football fans, There were also new buildings for electrical engineering, agriculture, physics and mathematics, and general science...
Beside many of the new buildings on his rolling campus, Uncle John placed neat white-and-green signs, announcing that the structure would cost taxpayers nothing; rents, cafeteria profits, ticket fees and similar profits would make them self-liquidating. "In eleven years," says Hannah happily, "we'll be entirely out of debt...