Word: alpha
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ALPHA BETA...
...operation. He therefore established Hamburger Central, the wall-less office near Chicago where Kroc and his burger consultants could set the party line for franchisers. In the center of one floor, a cone-shaped think tank, containing a circular water bed and a device which projects the user's alpha waves onto a screen, facilitates important decisions. (Employees may meet together within the womb-like room, unless they are of different sexes). Hamburger Central directives are communicated to the "professors" at nearby Hamburger University, which awards the Bachelor and Masters of Hamburgerology to future managers...
Under the plan, departments that choose to go on the beta scale offer junior faculty slightly more money but do not give them the semester leave included in the original, or "alpha," scale...
...conglomerates grew so rapidly as Ling-Temco-Vought, Inc. in the late 1960s, and few have come apart so spectacularly in the 1970s. Today the company is no longer a high flyer, and Founder James J. Ling, having created and failed with another conglomerate, Omega-Alpha, is fighting stockholder fraud suits. But thanks to Ling's penchant for corporate spinoffs, parts of the old LTV have emerged to flourish as independent companies. The one with the most exotic projects is Dallas-based E-Systems Inc., a company with a meaningless name, an ultrasophisticated product line and operations that extend...
...Alpha, 121 Newbury St., has an exhibit of 19th and 20th century American photographers--Ansell Adams, Edward Steichen, Bernice Abbot, Walker Evans and other biggies. Through Feb. 23. A similar exhibit called "New Exposures" is opening at the MFA Feb. 21. Lastly, if you haven't seen them yet, run over to the Carpenter Center and take a look at the VES 40 photographs. Very enjoyable, very fine work...