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Cutbacks in the size of secretarial and lower echelon faculty personnel will be necessary to enable the College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences to soften revenue losses from an anticipated drop in student enrollment, Provost Buck announced yesterday...
Hershey said that assignments for limited-service men have to be selected ones. He also asserted that the armed services prefer to have rear-echelon personnel who can fight if necessary...
...important respect, Chrysler looked weaker. Within three years, no fewer than eight members of its top echelon-the men who made Chrysler what it is today-will retire. Their departure will mark the end of the second generation of the auto industry...
Editor Waldrop didn't have much of a point. In World War II, censors snipped out violations of security. But they sent along letters telling of just such incredible exploits, although they were often aware that they came from rear-echelon soldiers trying to impress the folks back home. The armed forces called such letters "snow jobs," (i.e., piling it on), and most newspapers checked such letters before printing them. In failing to do so, the Times-Herald got trapped in the snow...
...defense is a road, railway and power line running straight from Hanoi to Haiphong. Small crossroads, sticking out like ribs, are nodal points at which the French concentrate their mobile reserves ready to put out to any threatened place on the delta's edge. The lowest echelon in this setup is what the French call autodéfence, i.e., self-defense by a kind of village home guard, armed with ten to 100 rifles. The home guard's function is to repel light attack and inform the French of enemy movements...