Word: meals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jewish students complain that the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) has repeatedly ignored their requests for meal rebates. The day after CHUL buried a two-year old rebate plea by the Jewish students in a sub-committee, 550 students collecting money for the Black Panther Fund petitioned CHUL to reimburse them for skipped meals. CHUL passed a rebate plan in a special meeting four days later...
CHUL recently rejected the meal plan proposed last December which would have allowed students to buy limited meal contracts. "The House chairmen said the students didn't want it," W. C. Burris Young '55, assistant dean of Freshmen and chairman of the CHUL Committee on Food said...
...give you one characteristic example, and that has to do with something we introduced. We introduced a very spectacular measure, I think, for Greece: free school lunch for all elementary school children. And that meant that for every Greek village, no matter how remote, a kid got a solid meal once a day. That was really redistributing income if you wish, but in a way that was very, very important. A full solid meal meant that the mother did not have to worry about any other meal, because when I say they had a meal at noon, I mean they...
...childhood "being terrified of my father." Scott's father, George D., was a coal mine surveyor when the Depression shut down most of the mines in the area. He moved his family to Pontiac, Mich., where, he brags, "I worked my ass off and the family never missed a meal. It was drive, drive, drive." Scott's mother Helen (called "Honey") was an elocutionist who gave public poetry readings and occasionally contributed verse to the local papers. She spent hours teaching her son how to read stories aloud. "I have very powerful memories of her," Scott says. "She was very...
...same time. He need only raise a trap door before his hearth to loll in a red-tiled tub-for-two before a blazing fire, sipping a cup of something, while chatting with guests sitting on fur-covered sofas, and watching his pretty wife Simone whip up a delicious meal. The Jurgens farmhouse is one enormous room, designed for sybaritic simplicity against what Jurgens calls "the inevitable day when there'll be no domestic servants-even for the very rich." Outside, for a change of pace, is an electric sauna for four and a heatable swimming pool...