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...particularly necessary in the welfare state, which can provide men with the necessities of life but not the luxuries that give grace, joy and meaning to existence. "We try to have the personal touch for the poor in this world of the Social Security card," says French-born Michel Salmon, head of Chicago's four Brothers. "We try to help them because they are Mr. and Mrs. So-and-So, not because they are poor...
...Irishmen. "We try," says one executive, "to fit the image Americans have of the Irish." Fattening the image, creamy-cheeked stewardesses in heather-flecked tweeds or linens welcome passengers aboard "shamrock flights." They feed them in first class on Royal Tara china with such delicacies as grilled Liffey salmon steaks, Irish coffee and Guinness stout. All the while, Irish jigs frolic over the intercom and the captain communicates in a bog-thickened brogue. Such blarney-and the practical advantage that the Irish government permits only state-owned Aer Lingus to land at Dublin as well as Shannon-last year accounted...
...human contacts with his customers. "We cannot," he says, "become a factory." In his cherry-walled and beige-carpeted office in San Francisco, he receives a steady stream of visitors, also seeks to keep abreast of changing banking needs by traveling much of his time. Aside from an occasional salmon-fishing expedition, most of Peterson's life is devoted to his banking work...
Wilson's austere social life has proved a bitter disappointment to Fleet Street, which found party-loving Hugh Gaitskell's capers a fertile source of copy. "I prefer beer to champagne and tinned salmon to smoked," insists Wilson. "I am on the side of plain living and high thinking." Actually, Wilson likes steak and wine as well as the next man, but he tucks into packaged custard, stewed rhubarb and canned meat with schoolboyish gusto...
...year ordered a Russian fleet out of the Bay of Fundy. Even the conference table can become chilly; last week in Tokyo, Japanese, U.S. and Canadian delegates labored through the fifth week of a conference stalemated by a U.S.Canadian refusal to let Japanese fishermen fish for trout, halibut and salmon east of the 175th longitude...