Word: oak
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meditates in his tiny split-level, made of vertical redwood planks. "I wanted to release some of the higher powers of the mind," he says. His home, which cost $2,000 in materials and furnishings, blends with the green leaves and gray trunks of the surrounding pine and oak trees...
...winners of the senior class marshal election are: David St. Pierre of Eliot House and Salem, first marshal; Ric Rojas of Leverett House and Los Alamos, N.M., second marshal; Robert P. Kristoff of Kirkland House and Columbus, Ohio, third marshal; and John R. McCambridge of Eliot House and Oak Lawn, Ill., fourth marshal...
...good news and bad news. First, the bad news. If you get the chance to avoid seeing BLACK OAK ARKANSAS at the Orpheum Theater, take it. This has to be one of the worst groups to hobble down the pike in a long, long while. Jim Mangrum's performance as a lead singer comes off like a pitiful imitation of Mick Jagger doing a deliberately bad rendition of Grand Funk Railroad's greatest hits...
McDonald's outlets have enough massed buying power - they purchase 1% of all the beef wholesaled in the nation - to line up steady supplies at stable prices in all normal times, and Oak Brook will help out in a pinch. Headquarters executives are currently buying up live steers with "contributions" levied on licensees, who get the meat back in the form of patties. McDonald's chiefs figure that they have corralled enough steers to get the company through the current beef shortage and avoid a price boost when the ceiling comes off retail beef prices this week...
...chairman intends to stick around to oversee that growth too. His undiminished vigor is evident to anyone visiting Oak Brook headquarters where the offices are open cubicles and Kroc's shouting rings through them all (executives who need some peace and quiet retire to an elaborate "think tank" equipped with a 700-gal. waterbed...