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Among the services, only the Navy is reportedly strongly against the unification plan. Captain Richard T. Spoffard, Professor of Naval Science, said however, "I'm personally in favor of a high-echelon reorganization--keeping the separate services...
...There's not much in it,' I replied." The "I" of the dialogue is Lewis Eliot, a middle-aging, upper-echelon British bureaucrat and the grimace-and-bear-it hero of this sixth of Author Snow's projected ten-volume Forsyte-ish saga. C. P. (for Charles Percy) Snow, 50, is a latter-day Galsworthy, precise, ruminative, articulate, but decorously genteel to the point of inaudibility. Critics who for more than a decade have touted him as a new Stendhal are simply chasing the wrong literary genealogy. In the Snow-Galsworthy vision, the middle class can have...
...free-spending Orville Enoch Hodge, 51, state auditor since 1952 and a comer in Illinois Republican politics, erasure had begun a fortnight before. It began when the Chicago Daily News broke the story of high-echelon finagling in the auditor's office (TIME, July 23). Reported the News, and other papers that gleefully waded in: 1) more than $500,000 in warrants (state checks) was missing from the auditor's office, and 2) more than $200,000 in suspicious state checks-some of them made out to men who denied ever having seen them-had been cashed...
...Robert S. Ingersoll, 42, was elected president and chief operating officer of Borg-Warner in a top echelon reshuffle at the auto-and aircraft-parts company. He succeeded his father, Roy C. Ingersoll, 71, who relinquished the presidency after six years, but remains as board chairman and chief executive officer. Young Ingersoll joined the company in 1939, during the war spark-plugged BW's amphibian-tank project, became an administrative vice president...
...milk"), once commented on a repetitious Vishinsky tirade: "Dig that broken record." He entered the Cabinet for the first time as Defense Minister when Eden took over as Prime Minister, was there only eight months before becoming Foreign Secretary. At 51, he is the youngest of the Tory top echelon...