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...dining rooms vary in decor. For 55,000 workers at its Seattle plant, Boeing Airplane Co. runs an enormous mess hall that concentrates on low-cost food (steak with French fries: 39?). Baltimore's McCormick & Co., one of the world's biggest spice firms, takes the opposite tack, with a wood-paneled colonial tea-and-dining room decorated with a ship model made of cloves; the waitresses wear 18th century costumes. One of the handsomest company rooms is at General Motors' new Technical Center near Detroit, where 4,500 employees eat in an air-conditioned glass...
...President attacked the second most important problem of his new Administration: the growing conservatism among Republicans and the seeming weakening of leadership in Modern Republicanism. Twice, in telephone talks to G.O.P. regional meetings in Omaha and Providence, Ike had taken the-Republican-that-is-big-enough-for-everybody tack. But for the Republicans of ten states gathered in Salt Lake City, he had tough words...
...Education. Though the Eisenhower Administration and schoolminded liberal Democrats have compromised on a bill authorizing $2 billion in aid to states over the next five years, the congressional atmosphere for a school bill is stifling. Not only is New York's Adam Clayton Powell Jr. threatening to tack on again his kiss-of-death integration rider, but congressional budget-cutters are eying with whetted axes the $400 million that would be appropriated for school construction next year. Prognosis: poor, almost hopeless...
...Giacomo Manzu, 48, takes the opposite tack. Although he, too, is self-taught, he was deeply influenced by classic Greek art, and has hewn to traditional lines. Now ranked as one of Italy's leading sculptors, Manzu won the grand prize for Italian sculpture at the Venice Biennale in 1948, was commissioned by the Vatican in 1950 to do a bronze door at St. Peter's, had a recent showing in Manhattan, and is now represented at the Museum of Modern Art by his tender, elegant Portrait of a Lady. Discussing his own work, Manzu says: "Each...
...sign up, she may get as much as $70 a week just to come in and learn to be a secretary, can make up to $100 a week when she completes her training, twice what a seasoned secretary got ten years ago. In sprawling Los Angeles some businessmen tack on an extra $25 a week to make up for the inconvenience of working downtown...