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Around mid-October of 1975 the investigation was expanded to employees of a number of Ford Motor suppliers. These included U.S. Steel Corp., the Budd Co., the Kenyon & Eckhardt and J. Walter Thompson advertising agencies. The first contractor to be investigated was Diner's/Fugazy Travel and Incentive Inc., which is headed by William Fugazy Sr., a close friend of lacocca...
...state legislators seem likely to give Brown what he seeks?and let him take the heat. Still, there was some grumbling. One diner in the capitol cafeteria suggested that "we stuff Howard Jarvis and mount him on the capitol dome." Bitterly, Democratic State Senator Alfred Alquist proposed turning all the surplus state funds over to taxpayers in a one-shot cash rebate and giving nothing to local districts. Said he: "It will do a lot of harm, but if it's the will of the people, we should...
...Washington by attaching a kitchen-dining car and installing its own crew. The train now has 13 cars, including four coaches, five sleepers and a lounge car with a master suite that boasts the only permanent rolling shower bath on American rails. In Atlanta in the morning, the overnight diner is replaced with a clean car, another crew, and a whole new cast of Pullman porters...
Southbound, the Crescent serves dinner both evenings of the trip (the first night, until 10:30 p.m.). "Dinner in the diner/ Nothing could be finer." Well, almost. Each table is dressed with linen cloth and napkins, heavy silverware and a vase of three fresh yellow chrysanthemums. The fare runs to excellent Southern fried chicken with cream gravy, roast beef and steak; there are hot breads and lemon pie. One couple does object testily when the steward is unable to produce a corkscrew for the bottle of Moulin-á-Vent '76 they had brought to table. It turns out that...
...maverick Democrat with a strong anti-Establishment bias, he has built his power base among poor and working-class voters. Says he: "They need someone to stand up and fight for them." Once he even invited Cleveland's civic leaders to breakfast with him at Tony's Diner, where he has eaten for years. His usual order: two bowls of Special K with bananas and a steak, which the waitress cuts up for him to save him time...