Word: cafeteria
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...20th century would almost certainly be the world's most exhaustively scrutinized, analyzed and criticized figure. As it is, the power of his office and the Jovian electronic eye ensure that the Chief Executive's visage and voice are available for instant dissection from Baghdad to Bangkok, from factory cafeteria to family living room. Depending on the man and the moment, he may come across as heavy or hero, leader or pleader, preacher or teacher. Whatever his role, in the age of instant communication he inevitably seems so close that the viewer can almost reach out, pluck his sleeve...
Boycott & Blockade. The protesters recently organized marches through the campus, boycotted classes and blockaded the administration building for 48 hours. They scattered food and shattered dishes in a cafeteria riot, threatened a "lie-in" on the football field to scuttle a homecoming game. Jones, who has headed Grambling since 1936, asked for National Guard protection, and Governor John McKeithen dispatched 600 soldiers to the campus. When Jones expelled 39 of the demonstrators, nearly 1,000 other students quit in sympathy but returned a few days later...
Three housewives, a school-cafeteria cook, an electrician, a pipe fitter, a secretary, a gas-company clerk, a grocer, two factory workers and a former state appointee were making history. Never before had a federal jury drawn from Mississippi veniremen convicted white defendants in any civil rights case...
...Pick a Target. Beyond the major demands, there are thousands of trivial, and often ridiculous, issues to be settled. One local, for example, is asking for both free lunches and a share in the company cafeteria's profits. Another now wants magazine racks installed on the John doors...
...Peter Paul's cor porate structure as thoroughly as the chocolate in its giant kettles. He took flying tours from the home office in Naugatuck, Conn., to plants in Salinas, Calif., Frankfort, Ind., and Dallas. In Dallas he discovered "an unhappy plant" because workers did not like the cafeteria menu and the manager refused to change it; Zender changed both the menu and the manager, brags that "now it is a happy plant." He and President Lloyd W. Elston, 40, met with independent candy salesmen whom Peter Paul's management had previously avoided, nearly doubled the advertising budget...