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...their summer lunch hours in midtown Manhattan, office workers now can pass up the hot-dog man in favor of felafel wrapped in Syrian bread, or quiche Lorraine, a gyro sandwich, shish kebab or exotically spiced vegetarian dishes. At stands on corners all over the city, teenagers sell juice freshly squeezed from oranges and watermelons...
DIED. Sir Dingle Foot, 72, British parliamentarian, globetrotting barrister and member of a remarkable political family; after choking on a sandwich; in Hong Kong, where he was on legal business. The son of a Liberal statesman, Dingle became an M.P. at 26. He swung to the Labor bench in 1956 and served as Prime Minister Harold Wilson's Solicitor General. When his younger brothers Hugh and Michael also became prominent in government, Tory critics joked that they were the country's "three Left feet...
...daily. He is often at his desk by 6:45 a.m., and ends the day at 8 or 9 p.m., after eating dinner alone at his desk. His only break is for lunch. Sometimes Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin, the only ambassador so favored, comes by for a noontime sandwich. The two doff their coats and eat at a small round table in Brzezinski's office. Essentially a loner with few real friends in the Administration, Brzezinski spends little time with cronies. He sometimes plays doubles tennis against Jimmy Carter, who is usually on the winning side...
...railroad has petitioned the Interstate Commerce Commission for permission to retire the train, and meanwhile is trying to persuade the Amtrak system to assume its operation. That of course could mean substitution of all-coach subway cars and sandwich bars for first-class sleeping cars and gently swaying restaurants-per ardua ad Amtrak...
...University, for instance, the Rev. Richard T. McSorley, professor of theology, still demonstrates alone against the school's ROTC program. Decrying what he calls the army's attempt "to 'psychologize' students into accepting militarism," McSorely marches alone every week in front of the school's main library, wearing a sandwich board that asks, "Would You Be Proud of an 'A' in ROTC...