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...general, however, what Food Columnist Adrian Bailey called the meal that built an empire appears to have declined along with Britain's dominion over palm and pine. Where to go, then, for a memorable breakfast? To the U.S., suggests Ronay, who seems to have been impressed not so much by the quality of American food as by the efficiency of room service. "Such rapidity!" he exclaims. "You hang that thing on the door and breakfast does arrive on time." Just where in the U.S. that remarkable experience occurred Ronay, unfortunately, does not specify...
...during the International Industrial Conference at San Francisco in September. The conference will bring together 500 heads of major industrial, technological and financial firms like U.S. Steel, IBM, Royal/Dutch Petroleum and the Chase Manhattan Bank in a top level gathering that the students say "is designed to consolidate the dominion of the multinational corporations in the third world...
...some extent, Wasps are presiding over the dissolution of their own dominion, and they are proud of it. In a book he wrote four years ago, The Protestant Establishment, Sociologist E. Digby Baltzell criticized upper-class Wasps for establishing a caste system in many places. Today, he gives them credit for being neither "arrogant nor insensitive. They are the least prejudiced people as far as intermarriage is concerned. Catholics are much more prejudiced and Jews are the worst of all." The great assimilating Presidents of this century-the two Roosevelts-were quintessential Wasps...
...with nostalgic indulgence as individualistic resistance fighters against society (witness the vast popularity of Bonnie and Clyde). In the U.S., the play takes on the eerie quality of a faintly sinister success story, in which an immigrant boy from Brooklyn overcomes his bad accent and deplorable manners to achieve dominion and power over the second largest city in the nation. In the Minnesota Theatre Company's production, currently visiting Broadway, Robin Gammell is delightfully disjointed as Ui, but as a Nazi he is just a lovable softy. He couldn't throw a spitball at the teacher, let alone...
...Among them: Toronto's multistructure Dominion Centre, a new public library in Washington, apartments in Montreal and a federal center in Chicago...