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...Presidents may bear out that maxim. Under Dwight Eisenhower, a state dinner, served with military precision, might feature such Army-wife specialties as Mamie's cherished Chicken Jewel Salad Ring, a cloying confection that included cranberries, celery and almonds, epoxied with gelatin. During the Kennedy Administration, the sumptuary menus seemed intended to rate a star or two from Michelin. Lyndon Johnson introduced Texas ranch-house-chili cuisine to the White House...
...building in Buffalo reconstructed from Mark Twain's old home, and an exquisite old Claremont, Calif., high school. There is also a streetcar manufacturing plant in San Francisco that serves only spaghetti dishes; and a reconstructed Colorado-style mining camp called The Chicago Claim Company, where luncheon menus are printed on land-claim certificates, and the decor features outsize mining pans. The place is, literally, a gold mine...
...picture might look grimmer than the University's current response to it, but for the time being no drastic action is being taken. Even such luxuries as Arnold's Cornmeal and Molasses Bread will remain in the Houses, although various items will slip quietly in and out of the menus as their prices and availability vary...
...pupils the same-is Hawaii. Money for education is raised principally through income and excise taxes and portioned out at roughly $930 per student. The schools' physical facilities are of equal quality, they have about the same pupil-teacher ratio (26 to 1) and even the same menus at the cafeterias. Slightly more money is spent in low-income areas because of federal programs intended to help the poor...
...situation is ridiculous. The facilities involved are Harvard facilities, first and foremost, and the excluded students are Harvard students. The food comes from one food service, the menus are standardized, and in some cases the kitchens involved are the same. The problem is caused by the narrow attitude of individual House Masters typified by Zeph Stewart's reported comments about not letting the black ants and the red ants eat together...