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When Motorola installed a round-the-clock cafeteria in its Chicago plant, it was pleasantly surprised that entire families patronized it to save money and eat better than at home. Says an executive of a San Francisco firm, which serves a roast-beef dinner for 57?: "You give everybody a $5 monthly raise, and in six months they've all forgotten about it. But they eat here every day and they don't forget." Many unions, which once frowned on plant cafeteria programs as unwanted paternalism, now realize that they benefit workers; some even demand a lunch program...
...first Pomp and Circumstance march (its trio is also known as "Land of Hope and Glory"), along with The Crown of India, The Banner of St. George, Imperial March -all marked by bombast, contrived orchestral climaxes, syrupy sentiment. "I want to write something as typically and thoroughly English as roast beef and beer," Elgar said, and he succeeded...
...there was another, less roast-beefy side to Elgar ("I must go out and buy some strychnine," he said in a moment of self-criticism), and from that side came his best music-The Dream of Gerontius, Enigma Variations, the Falstaff symphonic poem, his two symphonies. Such pieces have few of Elgar's faults and most of his virtues: the imaginative orchestration, the mystical harmonies, the broad, marching orchestral drive, and the peaceful lyrical passages, which rise and fall as gently as the rolling English countryside Elgar used to roam for inspiration...
...shrill combativeness often brought him perilously close to breaking the routine. "Do you," asked Chairman McClellan at one point, "regard your privileges under the Fifth Amendment as transcending your duty and obligations to the laboring men of this country who belong to your union?" Beck's rare-roast-beef face turned an even deeper shade, his head shot forward, his lips moved as he shaped an outraged reply. Just in time, his sad-faced lawyer, Arthur Condon, drove a swift knuckle into the small of Beck's back. Three times Beck started to answer; three times Condon...
...arriving in Hamilton harbor aboard the missile cruiser Canberra, stepped ashore from a U.S. Navy launch. "Harold, how are you?" Ike said warmly. That evening, the Big Two's big four-President, Prime Minister, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd-gathered for a roast-beef dinner in the private dining room of Macmillan's suite. Despite white dinner jackets, it was a friendly and informal meeting. Before ranging off into the problems of 1957, Ike and Mac exchanged reminiscences of the wartime days when Diplomat Macmillan served as British Minister Resident at General...