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Besides Dake, who won all-Conference laurels at Mishawaka H.S., the Crimson entry boasts a plethora of working-class talent, led by Chicago's Dan Swanson, a former Loop organizer who has lived largely off his reputation since coming to Cambridge...
...probably the tallest office building in the world built on the profits from hamburgers. But that is not all. When the executives of McDonald's Corp. abandoned their Chicago Loop offices for a new eight-story building in suburban Oak Brook, they also left behind their traditional concepts of office layout. As a result, McDonald's Oak Brook headquarters, opened last March, has a minimum of interior doors and walls, no offices in the usual sense, and what may well be the only waterbed in the world of big business...
...employees, 400 in all, adjusted quickly to the wide-open spaces. Now, says Market Research Coordinator Judy Stezowski, "You always know what's going on. You hear everything." The turnover rate among secretaries and clerical help has dropped in some departments from 100% each year at the old Loop offices to about 25% at the new Oak Brook base. Executives also feel that productivity...
...Companies are also de-escalating the scale of their Christmas parties. A Chicago brokerage house spent $40,000 last year on a sit-down dinner for all staff members and their wives at the plush Hotel Ambassador East. This year the firm is settling for a buffet in a Loop restaurant, omitting wives and limiting the total outlay to $1,000. At Swank, Inc., a Massachusetts jewelry manufacturer, the 3,200 employees voted to skip their usual Christmas party and floor show and to accept 3,200 turkeys instead. The chiefs of John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. are encouraging...
...Saks Fifth Avenue of New York, as well as such fashionable shops as Tiffany and Cartier. Soon they will be joined by Dallas' Neiman-Marcus. Two weeks ago came the biggest news of all. Chicago's retailing giant, Marshall Field & Co., whose main store in the Loop on State Street is scarcely a mile away, and New York's Lord & Taylor announced that they will both open branches in Water Tower Plaza, a $100 million shopping, hotel and apartment complex that will go up on the avenue...