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...guest speaker was New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, the occasion a $100-a-plate fund-raising dinner for 1,640 Nassau County (Long Island) Republicans. As a token, Dinner Chairman Salvatore Malone provided each diner with a silver dollar encased in plastic-leading Rocky to recall: "It was my grandfather's custom for years to give away dimes. But tonight Sal Malone is giving away dollars. It just shows it pays to stick along with the Republican Party-three generations, dimes to dollars...
...group of high school and college students, mainly Negro, entered a segregated diner on Route 20 outside of Baltimore last August, and refused to leave. The proprietor summoned a police officer who took the names of the demonstrators over eighteen. One boy did not have identification and was taken into custody...
...contract with Stouffer Corp. He carries his food to a quick-cooking microwave oven, presses a colored timer button that matches the color code on the package, and his meal is heated for the proper length of time. When the red light flashes and the bell rings, the diner, who by now feels a kinship to Pavlov's dog, gets his chow on disposable plates...
...visitor to East Germany is invariably struck by the overcrowded restaurants. "What else can I do with my money?" explained one diner. "It isn't safe to save it, since you never know when they are going to change the currency or ask all of those with money in banks to buy worthless state bonds. We can't get decent furniture or clothes. So the best idea is to eat well and forget about...
...little later at a seaside diner, the same girl was struggling with her dessert. "I can't see," she complained huskily as the melting ice cream slithered from her spoon. "Well, you can feel, can't you?" said her escort. Just within earshot, a waitress hefted her tray with barely controlled anger at the callous young...