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Harvard University Food Service workers started preparing food last week, says Dale M. Hennessey, assistant director for administration, who helps coordinate menus. The guests will consume 14,000 lbs. of salmon, 480 lbs. of asparagus and 1100 pints of strawberries, says Philip R. Bauer '36, senior food buyer for the Food Services...
...could take two years for the Government to sort through the mound of data, conduct its own tests and allow fake fat to reach menus and supermarket shelves. But Wall Street is already optimistic that the maker of Ivory soap, Crest toothpaste and Crisco oil has its hands on the greatest food-industry breakthrough since, well, sliced bread. Within two days of the FDA filing, P&G shares jumped 10%, to 93 5/8. P&G (1986 revenues: $15.4 billion) has "hit a grand-slam home run," says Hercules Segalas, an analyst for the Drexel Burnham Lambert investment firm. "This...
DriverGuide, produced by Karlin & Collins, a Sunnyvale, Calif., firm, is the electronic equivalent of rolling down a window and asking for directions. The prototype unit looks like an automated-teller machine, but it issues information rather than cash. By punching buttons and choosing from a variety of screen menus, users specify where they want to go. Twenty seconds later, the machine spits out a printed sheet of driving instructions constructed from a data base that contains the location of every intersection and alleyway in the Bay area, including 3,400 turn restrictions and 4,800 traffic lights. Says Barry Karlin...
...American visitors are insulted when they are directed to the private rooms or segregated sections of dining rooms; they feel an attempt is being made to separate foreigners from locals. Yet there appears to be genuinely hospitable planning behind the division. In addition to being cleaner, tourist sections provide menus with English translations. Nevertheless, foreigners who insist on being seated on the lower floors will...
Fortunately, there is a greater choice of food in China than there has been for several generations. If such progress continues, Americans in China may feel almost too much at home as menus begin to offer choices from columns A and B and meals wind up with fortune cookies...