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...situation varies according to the price category of a restaurant, reports Richard Blumenthal, an executive of the big Restaurant Associates chain. In its deluxe restaurants (The Four Seasons, Tower Suite, etc.), the decline in social dining has been matched by an increase in the trade of worried businessmen who entertain prospective clients in an effort to make a sale. The chain's moderately priced restaurants, like Mamma Leone's and La Fonda del Sol, have experienced a decline in the numbers of pre-theater diners because of a downturn in family entertaining. Lower-priced restaurants, like...
...Back Door. The litany of grievances is long. Most blacks believe that they are recruited and paid like hired hands, trained to entertain the ticket buyers-and then asked to leave by the back door. At college, a black is awarded an athletic scholarship and then thrust into a situation for which he is culturally as well as academically ill prepared. As with white athletes, teachers will give him passing marks so that he can maintain his eligibility as a player. But once that eligibility is used up, black athletes charge that "it's strictly fend for yourself, black...
...such men as Andreski, Frank and Bouthoul present the case for war? Not because they believe in war-certainly none of them do-but because they entertain the view that war is an inevitable adjunct, and in many ways the architect, of the civilization that man has built. When asked if he really believes that war is beneficial, Andreski replies: "That depends on whether you think technological civilization is beneficial. Personally, I like it, but I'm not convinced it is a viable creation. It may destroy itself." Destruction was the first and still remains the cardinal function...
...overflow crowd was relatively orderly throughout most of the speeches by faculty and students, but several students started to speak unrecognized from the floor when the chair refused to entertain their motion for adjournment...
Proceeds from his memoirs, Ein Leben (A Life), have helped Heartbreaker and Transplanter Christiaan Barnard to entertain his beautiful young fiancee in jet-set elegance. But the woman scorned, ex-Wife Louwtjie Barnard, 47, says those memoirs occasionally lapse into pure -or impure-invention. For instance, Barnard's recollection that he had left his wife's bed on their wedding night and watched a televised boxing match instead. Louwtjie told reporters in Munich that the surgeon "never was a gentleman," adding, "but I always was a lady." She had a final warning...