Word: canteeners
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...face would become familiar to producers. A big break came when Critic George Jean Nathan wrote that Lauren was "the prettiest theater usher" of the 1942 season. Off Broadway the spotlight was on Hitler, Mussolini and Tojo. Bacall danced with servicemen at the Stage Door Canteen, but her mind seems to have been exclusively on star wars...
Even so, since old prejudices die hard, progress is often slow and uneven. Despite its commendable record in other fields, Ford has not yet overcome apartheid in the canteen at its plant in Neave, near Port Elizabeth. Though all workers are served at the same cafeteria, the whites eat on one side of a partition and nonwhites on the other side. Few other companies follow Ford's example and encourage nonwhites to participate in negotiations about wages and work rules...
...allow time for training and competition, and accepting under-the-table payoffs from track-meet promoters and sporting-goods manufacturers. The payoffs go on, but now there is new hope for the amateur athletes-a jobs-for-jocks scheme devised by Howard Miller, 51, president of the Chicago-based Canteen Corp...
...driving and has a soft-drink marketing job in Seattle, plus a chance to pursue her daily conditioning without fear of being fired. Speed Skater Peter Mueller, winner of a gold medal in the men's 1,000-meter event in 1976, is working for Miller's Canteen Corp., and Augie Hirt, one of the nation's top race-walkers, is employed by Continental Bank in Chicago...
...their cigarettes. When nonsmokers protest the presence of a smoker at a nearby table, some managers insist that they have not even heard of the new rule. The manager of a collective farm near Timashevskaya in southern Russia chain-smoked furiously while entertaining TIME Correspondent Marsh Clark in a canteen where signs were posted, warning of the perils of smoking...