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Lunching Uptown. In most matters of dress, few companies are more conservative than those in finance and insurance. At Chicago's Northern Trust Co., a tradition requiring all officers to wear hats to work has been abandoned, but sport coats remain strictly taboo. San Francisco's Wells Fargo Bank prohibits beards, even though, admits one officer, "our founders wore them." Many secretaries employed in lower Manhattan's financial district live with their parents in Brooklyn, Queens and New Jersey, thus dress with far more restraint than their emancipated counterparts working in the midtown area. "That...
...when C.C.N.Y. reneged on its commitment to him because of his reputed permissive attitudes about sex. This Russell finds no laughing matter: "The Government of New York City was virtually a satellite of the Vatican. ... A typical American witch-hunt was instituted against me, and I became a taboo throughout the whole of the United States. ... If I had appeared anywhere in public, I should probably have been lynched by a Catholic mob, with the full approval of the police." Some of his later blatantly anti-American views perhaps can be traced to that incident, emotionally if not logically...
Automatic Strippers. Besides fresh meat, Oscar Mayer & Co. offers under its brand name 135 varieties of sausages and some 70 other processed-meat products, notably bland luncheon cuts and wieners (Mayer & Co. will accept the word frankfurter-but hot dog is taboo). Since 1954, in an industry traditionally plagued by meager returns, it has also squeezed out more profit than any other leading meat packer: 2.38% of sales in 1967, v. an industry-wide average...
...ritual was extended to cooking food even when no benefit was gained--when, in fact, as in cooking carrots, benefits were lost, such as texture and nutritional value. Cooking came to embody the taboo that one must do what is controlled, is civilized; one cannot allow the "natural" or the instinctive...
...prominent. But individualism keeps cropping up. Lately, a few papers have been increasing the use of bylines and striving for a more personal writing style. They have also grown more willing to court controversy. "We are trying to create an atmosphere in which people can speak about formerly taboo subjects," says Yomiuri Editor in Chief Yosoji Kobayashi. Not that the press is ever likely to depart from its role as a mainstay of the social structure. As a Tokyo city editor puts it, "We must be Japanese first, and then newspapermen...