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...University's dining halls department is one of the largest restaurant operations in New England. The department operates 13 dining halls--ten for Undergraduates in the College, as well as those in Harkness Commons for graduate students in Cambridge, in Kresge Hall for Business School students, and in Vanderbilt Hall for medical students. The Department employs 700 regular workers and 300 student helpers...
Thank you for the compliment [March i], but although my Amy Vanderbilt's Complete Book of Etiquette seems to be in most American embassies and consulates and in foreign embassies as well, I cannot by any stretch of the imagination be called an official consultant on etiquette to our State Department. It helps...
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...figures only and for the very young"), women's credit cards (men are urged not to argue when the female reaches for the check at a business lunch), and psychiatric patients ("No one undergoing treatment should be embarrassed to mention the fact"). As for those pesky teenagers, Miss Vanderbilt advises: "Parents are wise to overlook seemingly disrespectful outbursts from time to time . . . The parent must get across the idea that 'I love you always but sometimes I do not love your behavior...
...Teheran, a salesman from Lockheed Aircraft Corp. is hoping to get the signature of the Shah of Iran on a contract to buy a JetStar corporate jetliner. Indonesia's President Sukarno already owns one. So does Millionaire Harold S. Vanderbilt of Palm Beach and New York. But executive jets are running into stiff sales resistance from the very group for which they were intended: corporate executives. The difficulty is not salesmanship (a demonstration ride can be arranged at the drop of a hat) or a lack of a choice. Eleven planemakers, including four in the U.S., have corporate jets...