Pentagon Pie

The War Department's mammoth Pentagon Building in Washington, the capital's most fabulous new sight, has eight cafeterias and two dining rooms which serve 40,000 meals a day. One day last winter ambulances clanged up, carted away 50 Pentagon diners griped by contaminated salad dressing. The Pentagon hastily changed cafeteria managers; the Welfare and Recreational Association, which runs the cafeterias in most of Washington's government buildings, took charge.

Last week, the Welfare and Recreational Association notwithstanding, ambulances rushed to the Pentagon once again.

To the hospital went 36 servicemen and War Department employes woozy from another poisoning, this time apparently from the butterscotch pie. Said W.R.A.'s Director Frank W. Hoover, unimpressed by talk of sabotage: "The place seems to be jinxed."