Word: echeloned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reason for the outcry was ethnic. Negroes, Puerto Ricans and other minority groups generally approved of Garelik's promotion, though as the first Jew in memory to become chief inspector, he lacked the Hibernian seal of approval from the top-cop echelon. Another related controversy concerned the John Birch Society. At his first press conference, Leary said that policemen could be Birchers if membership did not conflict with their duties. This horrified the liberal Lindsay, whereupon Leary proclaimed that he was "repelled and nauseated" by Birch dogma and would forbid police membership in the society...
...Lower-echelon labor officials emphasized that the federation's Committee on Political Education would step up its activities on a "nonpartisan" basis, aimed only at electing liberals in this fall's congressional elections. In fact, this is what COPE has always done; most of its beneficiaries have been and will continue to be Democrats. Moreover, Meany was careful to steer the animosity away from Lyndon Johnson...
Meanwhile, the British enact high military farce; the war has lost its point, and the rear echelon is a jungle of red tape and "bumf" in which the conniver, the spiv and the apple polisher win the pips, the crowns and the privilege. Ennis is fatally handicapped-and funny-not because he is himself farcical but because he is serious-about love, about music, and about the postwar world. Gallantly, he survives each pratfall (even when ordered to take a class in elementary shorthand when he should have been waving his long hands over an orchestra sawing...
Anthony Burgess, also an English Catholic satirist, tells of a painful, three-year tour of duty on Gibraltar during and after the end of World War II. There he suffered not only the unrewarding frustrations of rear-echelon soldiering, but also the discovery-agonizing for a young man-that his vocation for music was, if not false, secondary to an untested talent for writing. The result might well have been a damp dollop of self-pity; A Vision of Battlements is anything but that. It is a high-spirited cadenza amid the brassy cacophony of war, played by a born...
...Momo") Giancana is a top-echelon Chicago mobster who brags that he reads Shakespeare. As the star boarder of the Cook County jail for the past seven months, he has had plenty of time to brush up on the bard-and, no doubt, to reflect on Caesar's fate and other most unkindest cuts. For whatever else he may have done in a long and lucrative career-and he has only twice gone to prison before-Sam at 57 is in durance vile for indulging his red-blooded American right to plead the Fifth Amendment...