Word: lunch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Quarles's death shocked Washington. Day before, he had apparently been in the best of health. Like clockwork he had followed a normally busy schedule: a National Security Council meeting, lunch at his desk with Presidential Science Adviser James Killian, a conference with Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, a briefing on progress of the Air Force's nuclear powered airplane, a dinner party at the Metropolitan Club, and an Air Force concert at the Lisner Auditorium. But Quarles's death was more upsetting for its effect on the Pentagon. After two years as Defense Secretary, Neil McElroy planned...
...member of Dudley House or participate in its activities. There is no reason why the commuter should be a House member as a freshman any more than is his resident classmate. 2. Provisions for lockers for commuting Freshmen at the Union. 3. Provision for a 6-lunch meal ticket for Union lunches at a price sufficiently low so that all might afford it. Some arrangements might be made for evening meals as well to insure that when commuting freshmen eat in the Square they do so with their classmates whenever possible. 4. Provision of several suites in the Yard where...
Even the commuting student, however, eats most of his lunch meals at Harvard, and if he is a Freshman his eating in the Union can play a valuable part in making him part of his class and the College. The Union, even for resident students, is the most unifying experience of most Freshmen's year. There is economic pressure, however, to eat at Dudley (where it is possible to feed oneself far more cheaply) or in the Square (where the food is usually better). But if commuting students were required to buy a year lunch ticket for the Union, this...
...Detroit, if a compositor works so much as a minute into his lunch period, he gets time and a half for the whole period. A printshop employee, if not notified of a change in his shift before leaving the plant, gets $2 extra "callin" pay-plus overtime until the start of his regular shift...
...called "almost non-existent, otherwise amicable," and "no worse than the other Houses." But other commuters have gotten to know the tutors, and their reaction was "improving," "gaining," even "excellent." Most, however, found the same barrier that exists in many of the residential Houses: "Staff sits together at lunch, and it is difficult to approach them without a sense of intrusion...