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...Pool and ping-pong tables, bicycle racks, uniforms, pianos, and many other things which keep a House from being a mere dormitory and dining room are maintained and often provided by its House Committee. Most members take this equipment for granted, as they have been led to do by the general promise of the House system. Yet only part of its cost is absorbed in House budgets. House Committees must seek the rest in voluntary contributions...
With the building occupied ahead of dedication and the 2,000 employees purring with content at twelve bowling alleys, beauty and barber shops, card rooms, general store, lending library and ping-pong tables, President Wilde found hirings up 70%, turnover down 20%. And from Architect Bunshaft, already applying the hard-won discoveries on half a dozen even newer buildings, there was a satisfied, "I think this is the best job we've done. The big thrill is to see a dream happen...
...Copson has successfully freeze-dried mushrooms, carrots, beef rib and sirloin steak, veal cutlets, pork chops, lobster, shrimp, strawberries and several kinds of fish. Uncooked green peas keep their shape but become as light as miniature ping-pong balls. Freeze-dried chicken breasts look like balsa wood. For gourmets, freeze-dried foods offer some interesting possibilities. Chicken or fish could be made to soak up several times their weight of wine or other flavorsome liquid...
...Eliot are good. Besides being the largest of the Houses, it also has the most spacious rooms. The library is well-stocked, with particularly good English Literature, French Literature, Classics, and Fine Arts collections and the darkroom facilities are excellent. There is a chapel, the usual pool and ping-pong tables, and a grill room that saves the hungry the trouble of walking to the Square between 5 p.m. and midnight...
...House Library, fairly quiet, and usually well filled, has a particularly fine selection in English and Government, and contains a good record collection which can be signed out or used in the record-listening room. Ping-Pong and pool tables can be found in the recreation room, while popular superintendent Gordon Ramey gives direction to the House darkroom...