Word: echeloning
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...change is at the Defense Ministry, for it brings to the fore a new personality who will rival Schroder in the C.D.U. echelon below Erhard. Successor to Strauss is a North German named Kai-Uwe von Hassel,* 49, who was born in Tanganyika, Germany's former East African colony. Von Hassel's agility in C.D.U. party matters has long marked him as a comer...
...eventually branched into production of everything from transformer equipment to pneumatic handling gear for bulk materials. With 9,000 employees in 27 countries, Halliburton last year earned $16,780,000 on sales of $193,500,000. Last week, in a move calculated to thrust his company into the top echelon of U.S. corporations, Halliburton's President Loren B. Meaders (pronounced Medders), 55, announced that he was negotiating to buy Houston's Brown & Root...
Salaries of middle-echelon executives rose only 2.7% in fiscal 1962, exactly the same as the rise in blue collar manufacturing wage rates. The Labor Department reported this week that its survey of more than 1,700 big companies showed that middle-echelon salaries run highest in manufacturing, utilities, wholesale trade and engineering. They scrape bottom in retail trade, finance, insurance...
Chalk Circles. Son of the Anglican curate of Piccadilly's fashionable St. James's Church, Vassall was a lower-echelon Admiralty clerk with talents so mediocre he had been passed over for promotion seven years running. He was also, said his defense attorney in a plea for mitigation, a man with "a weakness which has been with him ever since he came into this life." His weakness did not get him into real trouble until 1955, when he was with the British naval attache's office in Moscow. At a dinner party arranged by a Pole, Vassall...
...wonder servants are hard to find-or that the quest for them has all but replaced children as the staple of family talk. In Boston, they are telling about the two maids discussing a high-echelon dinner party at which one had just served. "Dean Rusk was there." says the first, "and President Pusey and Walter Lippmann." "What did they talk about?" asks the second. "Why, me, of course...