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Telephone calls were often cut off, lost or left on hold as aides struggled with the unfamiliar telephone system. Top aides can eat in the exclusive and inexpensive White House mess, where a sirloin steak can be had for $2.50, but most of them had too much work to leave their desks and had to send out for a meal or get by with sandwiches and soft drinks from vending machines...
...York are not only legendary but hard to believe. Is it possible that one man could have eaten at one sitting the following: two to three dozen giant oysters, half a dozen crabs, two bowls of green turtle soup, six lobsters, two portions of terrapin, two ducks, one sirloin steak plus vegetables, and a tray of French pastry (size unknown)? It is difficult to know if this was breakfast, lunch or supper, for Brady reputedly ate six times...
...elites: Sezchuan-style Chinese cuisine. That's easy at about five different Harvard, Central and Inman Square restaurants. For lunch, the Square abounds in the $2.50-$3.50 meals: The Rendevous, with some fine Vietnamese cuisine downstairs (owned by Saigon's former ambassador to Burma), Bartley's and Buddy's Sirloin Pit for hamburgers, Nornie-B's for reuben and sandwich esoterica, the 1955-like Tommy's Lunch for more conventional sandwiches and pinball, and the Underdog, which restores one's faith in the possibilities of cheap lunches and great American hot dogs with various trimmings. Ferdinand's is surprisingly inexpensive...
...past year or so, the Camelback Inn in Scottsdale, Ariz., owned by Marriott Corp., has presented such menu items as New York-cut sirloin steak in three sizes (10 oz. for $9.75, 8 oz. for $8.25, 6 oz. for $6.75) and baked stuffed shrimp in two portions-six for $7.75, four for $5.50. A management study shows that 70% of the steak eaters among its customers have ordered the smaller cuts, and 65% of the shrimp fanciers have chosen the less hearty portion. Last summer Billy Martin's Carriage House in Washington, D.C., introduced smaller portions for smaller prices...
...East Bay City Jazz Band will be laying down a mainstream sound at the Scotch and Sirloin, followed on Thursday by the Buzzy. Drootin Quintet, perhaps the best house band playing standards in Boston...