Word: mcdonaldization
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...FRANK McDONALD, a local funeral parior owner, picked up the phone to console John Hogan '73, he did not face a very difficult...
...district. He had just spoken to Peter Cadzas, his 21-year-old campaign manager. Cadzas told Hogan that he had just gotten the returns from Waltham and that it was now certain that the race was lost. After Cadzas finished telling Hogan the news, he handed the phone to McDonald...
...still love 'ya. You done a great job and you got nothing to be ashamed about. Keep your people together and get ready to go at this guy again in two years." McDonald told Hogan between puffs on his cigar...
...landowners to cast a plastic gloss of commercial development over the Square. Already--a giant craft and specialty mall, nested on nearly half a block parallel with Holyoke Center, is half complete. Nearly 40 small businesses have been expelled by soaring rents and the commercial muscle of concessions like McDonald's and Baskin Robbins. Max Wasserman, the most innovative and prosperous of the Harvard Square landlords, has extensively remodeled more than a score of his properties. All developers expect the JFK center to energize the Square's economy in a quantum jump...
Police are convinced that the new devices make convictions much easier. "If a forger is leaving a trail of bad checks, all using different aliases," says Redwood City, Calif., Police Chief John McDonald (no kin to Hugh), "we can easily put them together with the thumbprints and prove grand theft." That word seems to be getting around, discouraging paper hangers from even trying their craft in stores that require thumbprints. Authorities estimate that the rate of bad checks has been cut by 50% in most such outlets. The devices have proved doubly effective at some stores. Last month an Alec...