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...choice onto the federation's 29-man executive council. None of those removed was an active leader in his individual union; all those elected to the council hold important offices in their home unions. The changes, a modest response to criticism that the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s top echelon has lost touch with its 12.8 million dues payers, lowered the average age of the council from...
...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...
...served principally as a top adviser on foreign policy to John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. Last week Mac Bundy announced that he had accepted a $75,-000-a-year job as president of the Ford Foundation, starting March 1. He will be the last of the original top-echelon New Frontiersmen to take leave of the White House...
Penkovsky's memoir-smuggled out of Russia on one of the secret routes that carried Abram Tertz's and Boris Pasternak's works westward-is gritty and gripe-ridden in its condemnation of Moscow's upper-echelon morals, and filled with "revelations" presumably intended to compromise Soviet agents...
Clustered in the next echelon are Marvin Watson, who helps Valenti in scheduling the presidential day, Jake Jacobsen, a troubleshooter and sometime legislative liaison man who aspires to succeed O'Brien as chief White House representative on Capitol Hill, and Lee White, a legal adviser, who may also depart soon...