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...Dial-an-appliance" household equipment. Developed by Westinghouse, it enables a housewife who is downtown shopping to start dinner before she starts home: she simply telephones her home, then by dialing additional digits turns on the oven, sets it to cooking the roast. Vacationers heading home after a two-week absence can telephone their air conditioners en route, find the house cool when they arrive...
...early Christian custom of agape, or love feast, in Munich parish homes and in its famed beer hall, the Hofbräuhaus, where some 900 people watched the papal legate, Gustavo Cardinal Testa, move smilingly among them, passing out hard rolls to be eaten with cold ham and roast veal accompanied by Palatinate wine...
Students of this period lived luxuriously and inexpensively. Breakfast, served in Memorial Hall by white-clad waiters, featured two boil- ed eggs for eight cents or two doughnuts for three cents; a roast beef dinner sold for twelve cents, quality not specified. Each six-week course cost $20, a price fixed in the late 1880's and not changed until...
...along with a difficult conductor like me," then announced that he will leave his Texas podium next year. Generally liked in Houston, Stokowski was occasionally criticized, first for pushing too many modern works, then for moving in the opposite direction and pandering to the city's "roast beef appetite." Nevertheless, the city got a good financial return on Stokowski's reported $35,000 annual salary: ticket sales increased 86%. So far, no successor for Stokowski's job has been found; Sir John Barbirolli turned it down...
This week, Long Island's Continental Industries will begin operation of an automatic cafeteria for investment bankers Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades & Co., providing a menu of 55 dishes with three choices per day, e.g., roast turkey dinner (50?) and codfish cakes, peas and carrots (45?), to 600 employees...