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...haircuts and permanents when they please, sunbathe on the hospital roof, play cards, browse in the gift shop, receive visitors from noon until 8 p.m. One man got permission to go home for some summer shirts when the weather turned warm. A housewife used to get a midafternoon snack of scrambled-egg sandwich and caramel sundae. Exclaimed she: "I had no idea being in a hospital could be so much fun. I did have one problem today. I just could not find a fourth for bridge...
...demanding U.S. consumer, at least to the point where the accessible substitute is preferable to a long walk, machine manufacturers have improved the quality and reliability of vending machines by employing the latest advances in refrigeration and electronics. Kansas City's Vendo Co. has set up completely automatic snack bars at the University of Kansas and the University of Wichita, offering sandwiches, milk, coffee, pastry and juices. Vendo, which expects 1960 sales of at least $50 million and profits of $2.50 per share, is setting up an automatic drive-in with a complete menu on Kansas City...
...first glance, Akbet Jaber looks like any provincial Arab town. Snack bars display turnips pickled in pink marinade. Butchers hawk fatty, flyspecked mutton hanging from great hooks in the ceilings of their stalls. On closer inspection, Akbet Jaber is a town noticeable for the absence of two things: trees and tradesmen's signs. The refugees have refused to plant trees because it might indicate a willingness to settle permanently. And the potter, the shoemaker, the shopkeeper are reluctant to advertise for fear of losing their U.N. doles and, in the process, appearing better off than Arab propagandists...
...Englishman' lives in a home with central heating, drinks canned beer or soda pop while watching television (having just eaten a wimpyburger), has corn flakes for breakfast, washes with Lux soap, dries his hands on a paper towel and has an ice-cream bar for a snack...
Harvard's new Director of Sports Information, Baaron Pittenger, endeared himself forever to Stadium press box inhabitants at half-time in the season's first encounter, when he distributed menus giving the writers a choice of six delicacies for their mid-game snack. Instead of the legendary soggy doughnuts, the sportswriters now had their pick of pizza, ham and cheese, and four other selections. This thoroughness in the relatively unimportant area of refreshments reflects the diligence with which Pittenger has attacked the monstrous problem of press relations and dispensation of information...