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...past year and recently acquired New York's Brass Rail restaurant and catering chain. (A pioneer in preparing restaurant-quality dinners for vending, Brass Rail supplies machine-served meals to General Electric employees at G.E.'s New York home office.) Interstate's President Ronald Wolff, 31, has made himself one of vending's new millionaires since he started the company in 1955, expects sales this year to hit $60 million v. $42.6 million last year...
...machines. Despite the unappetizing flavor of the first machine-served coffee-variations on Mississippi mud-it was an immediate success, and Rudd-Melikian Chairman K. Cyrus Melikian and President Lloyd Rudd are two more of vending's instant millionaires. It was coffee, too, that started Interstate's Wolff off seven years later when he got exclusive rights to the first machine to prepare coffee from actual grounds instead of powders or concentrates...
Coffee, which accounted for 19% of their total sales last year, is still the vending operators' most profitable item, and some of them occasionally wonder why they ever pushed on into food vending. Says Wolff: "Installing a coffee machine is a fairly simple operation, but when you start vending rolls to go with the coffee, you are already in trouble." Most vendors, however, believe that solving the costly problems of hot food selling is only a matter of time. Wolff's Interstate is currently testing a quick-cook process designed to heat a complete frozen meal...
...Pollack agree, stressing the improvement over the course of the term of their students' ability to present a coherent argument, to marshal facts to support it, to organize effectively, and to express themselves clearly. Reuben Brower assigns four or five papers in his English 162, as does Robert P. Wolff in Social Sciences 140. Richard Poirier, in his courses on American and English litera- ture, is another who gives frequent paper assignments, believing the act of writing to be the most important way of transforming feelings and intimations into real knowledge...
...show the student what he has done wronge, and suggest what to do the next time. The criticism on most term papers is insultingly brief, considering the amount of work put into the paper. "Able job," "fine work," "sloppy reasoning"--these comments do not educate. Ideally, as Robert P. Wolff noted, students should be writing papers every week and going over them word by word with an instructor. courses cannot fulfill this function--more properly reserved for tutorial work--but course graders might be able to talk with students about their papers, if there were more men among whom...