Word: oak
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...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...
Died. Betty Smith, 75, playwright and novelist who planted a durable oak when she published A Tree Grows in Brooklyn in 1943; in Shelton, Conn. Like Francie Nolan, Tree's heroine, Betty Smith grew up in a Brooklyn slum. After writing for and performing on the stage with modest success, she won instant fame with her first novel. Tree sold 6,000,000 copies, was made into a movie and a Broadway musical. Her three later novels, though bestsellers, were mere saplings in comparison. "I wish," she once mused, "I'd written my books in reverse...
...Royal Oak, Mich...
...carved oak reliefs of its altarpiece, circa 1565, form one of the chief treasures of St. Leonard's Church. The triptych shows scenes in the life of St. Anne, mother of the Virgin Mary. The Bible has no mention of Anne. The only source is the apocryphal gospel known as the Protoevangelium Jacobi, written in 170-180 A.D. This account has it that Anne and Joachim were devoted, but Anne could not conceive. So Joachim went into the desert to meditate; his wife stayed home to worry. An angel appeared to Anne, Joachim had a vision in the desert...