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Food was present in large quantities, lobster and chicken salad being featured at noon and chicken and beef pies in the evening. All this mixed with impressive amounts of alcohol made the day a gastronomical success, if nothing else...
When Motorola installed a round-the-clock cafeteria in its Chicago plant, it was pleasantly surprised that entire families patronized it to save money and eat better than at home. Says an executive of a San Francisco firm, which serves a roast-beef dinner for 57?: "You give everybody a $5 monthly raise, and in six months they've all forgotten about it. But they eat here every day and they don't forget." Many unions, which once frowned on plant cafeteria programs as unwanted paternalism, now realize that they benefit workers; some even demand a lunch program...
...Beef & Beer. Elgar became Master of the King's Musick. He fitted the public picture of clubman and country squire, complimented himself that he neither looked nor dressed like an artist. It was this pompous Elgar who turned out the first Pomp and Circumstance march (its trio is also known as "Land of Hope and Glory"), along with The Crown of India, The Banner of St. George, Imperial March -all marked by bombast, contrived orchestral climaxes, syrupy sentiment. "I want to write something as typically and thoroughly English as roast beef and beer," Elgar said, and he succeeded...
...Experimenter Heath did not claim to know: he gets it from the "septal region" (part of the midbrain. in front of the hypothalamus) of bovine brains. One test: Heath & Co. shot taraxein into two monkeys, noted behavior changes which reminded them of schizophrenia, then gave a shot of the beef-brain extract. The monkeys promptly returned to normal, apish antics...
...limb which critical convention colleagues were anxious to saw off. Snapped Cleveland's Dr. Douglas D. Bond: "No group of psychiatrists need be told that the easiest people to deceive are ourselves." In this atmosphere. Heath was careful not to disclose anything about the beef extract's effects, if any. on the mental symptoms of human patients. One trouble, he conceded, was that his extracts did not always turn out the same, might have varying potency, or none. But something could be 'read between the lines of his report. One patient has had the beef-brain-extract...