Word: lunch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...occupied their schools to make sure they stayed open; at P.S. 84 on Manhattan's upper West Side, parents took turns guarding the doors and patrolling the halls to make sure that the building was not locked by custodians sympathetic to the U.F.T. The city's school lunch program, which normally provides 400,000 lunches daily, served more than 160,000 a day during the strike, mostly in ghetto schools...
Harmony was evident at lower levels too. While the Nixons were occupied with the Johnsons, the President-elect's aides met their counterparts in the White House for briefings, tours and lunch in the basement mess. For the first time, the terms of the 1964 Presidential Transition Act were in force. The act authorizes up to $900,000 for the expenses of the changeover and allows the President to make available extensive facilities, including office space, for his successor's advance party. Johnson went beyond the letter of the law by letting Nixon use his new, heavily armored...
...your participation," he said, shaking hands all round. "Congratulations on your independence, Monseigneur," replied Warrant Officer Ralph McCullough, the group's senior member. "You are very kind," said Sihanouk. "Thank you very much." Then, after a two-hour bus tour of the capital, the men were treated to lunch at La Taverne, one of the city's finest French restaurants. (Among the highlights was their first taste of beer since July 17-a Chinese brew called Tsingtao.) That afternoon, they watched a four-hour pageant as the Prince's guests, and as a special bonus Sihanouk later...
...Graham Hurlbut Jr., director of University food services, said yesterday that the Dudley House cafeteria--like the House dining halls--operates on a non-profit basis. He estimated that the charge for lunch in a House dining hall is about 94 cents per day ($1.35 by the meal) compared to the 85 cents allotted to students for noon meals in Dudley...
...column on "pseudo intellectuals," and then having him quote Dickens and Yeats was inspired. For those of us who have heard hizzoner try to articulate without a script, this new-found eloquence came as a real surprise. Add a wife who sounds the dinner bell in French, sherry for lunch, and a picture of our boy John in tails at the Met, and you have the ingredients for a clever burlesque of J.F.K. and Jackie...