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...Eastman Avenue Elementary School in east Los Angeles, 1,550 children, nearly all Hispanic, fill the lunchroom with a clamorous din. Every single one of them eats free. Since more than 85% would qualify for no-cost meals anyway, the school had been excused from charging anybody until last year. Now, under new guidelines, it will have to charge students 75? for a full-fare lunch and 35? for a reduced-price meal. The school has not yet completed processing income-report forms from parents, however, so for the moment the free meals continue. The total cost of the Eastman...
Cafeteria Manager Wanda Gillespie notes that Eastman has a special problem: "A lot of kids don't get this type of food at home. It takes a while for them to accept normal American things like apple sauce or mixed peas and corn." Gillespie tries, within Government requirements, to serve foods closer to the Latin taste, such as pizza and burritos...
...camera that operates on the same principle. "Why would anyone want a still camera that takes pictures only as sharp as those on your TV? It's an idea we've discussed for years and clearly decided that there's no market for the product." Said Eastman Kodak Vice President John Robertson: "We expect traditional still photography to grow and continue to be the predominant form of amateur picture taking into the next decade." Polaroid says it has no plans at present to follow Sony down the route to electronic pictures...
...marketing, competitors to American Tobacco were mere puffs of smoke and United States Steel was an incredible amalgam of 148 companies that dwarfed runners-up. Washington's vigorous trustbusters lashed out against a variety of anticompetitive practices: Hollywood studios' control of movie theaters, Eastman Kodak's grip on film processing and United Shoe Machinery's knot on shoe manufacturing equipment...
DIED. Howard Hanson, 84. director of the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., from 1924 to 1964 and a composer whose Fourth Symphony won a Pulitzer Prize in 1944; in Rochester. Also a teacher and conductor, he fought tirelessly, if unsuccessfully, against progressive trends in American classical music...