Word: steams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Delegates' Dining Room-and here came the waitress, all snarls, and spilled soup. Crash! Down slammed the food. Zip! It was whisked away before anyone was finished. "And how was the meal, sir?" asked the manager. Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, 45, couldn't help blowing off steam, so much in fact that the waitress was summarily fired. And when her case came up for review, Freeman reluctantly confirmed his complaint. She was "very cross, curt and sullen," he wrote in a letter. "My wife, having worked as a waitress, is more than understanding and tolerant. In this case...
Masters and Senior Tutors reached yesterday expressed enthusiasm for the idea of getting the steam tables out of the dining halls, but differed in estimating its relative importance to their Houses...
Zeph Stewart, Master of Lowell House, said that after relieving crowding in student suites and providing more single bedrooms for students, moving the steam tables is the structural change he would most like...
...lines are particularly unsightly in the Lowell House dining room, which is big hall centering around a fireplace," Stewart said. "That fireplace is now hidden behind the steam tables...
Charles H. Taylor, Master of Kirkland House, said last night that "in theory" the steam tables proposal is near the top of his list. But be added that the cost might be prohibitive...