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Given the talented team and the crowd (the College Diner next door was deserted), the game should have been a blowout, right...
...always wise to remember the captain or maitre d' of a top Manhattan restaurant. Though he will curtly accept a tip (usually $2 or $3) as his due, the failure to pay homage may cause him to pursue a departing diner, somewhat like a crow cawing at a hapless cat, with elaborate and sarcastic expressions of thanks; if he has seen your credit card, he may personalize the departure-"Thank you, Mr. Bumblebottom" -practically onto the street...
Meanwhile, life inside the picket-surrounded Post building is becoming less hectic. The ninth-floor executive dining room is still serving as an all-night diner. Executives still have to pick their way through piles of dirty laundry to grab sleep, on cots set up in their offices, between an all-day shift behind the desk and an all-night shift putting out the paper. But only 100 employees are still living in the building, down from 200 at the beginning of the strike. All but one of the paper's nine presses have been repaired...
Many restaurants are reluctant to adopt the plan. Their managers wonder if customers really want smaller portions, and are not sure that selling them will raise profits, since they mean a lower average price collected from each diner. But some experts believe the trend toward smaller servings will accelerate. Says James W. McLamore, president of the National Restaurant Association: "An earlier ethic of conspicuous consumption may be giving way to a current ethic of 'conspicuous conservation.' " The doggy bag just...
Open Racism. With more than 60% of the inmates either black or Puerto Rican, racism burned openly. White members of the observer committee were openly referred to by guards and townspeople as "nigger lovers." A black committee member was thrown out of a local diner. Both black and white observers, Wicker included, heard muttered threats from the guards and troopers that when the shooting started, they would be the first...