Word: echeloning
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...them were the ubiquitous White House presidential advisers, chiefly Richard Goodwin, 30, who seemed to have a hand in every Latin American decision. Only recently have things settled down. Last week Goodwin was in Europe setting up a "world conference on middle management" to help businessmen train second-echelon executives. In firm charge at last of Latin American policy is Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Edwin Martin, 54, a career Government economist. Under him, Alliance Boss Moscoso seems to be getting the free hand he needs to make the Alliance work...
...place of Mac's axed heads, even critics had to admit the addition of considerable brainpower. Reginald Maudling made an impressive new Chancellor of the Exchequer (see box). Education Minister Sir Edward Boyle, 38, is a courageous, cultivated "Suez rebel" who has served with distinction in lower-echelon government posts, including the Ministry of Education, and recognizes Britain's urgent need for expanded technical education...
...current Brussels safari, the Lord Privy Seal* hand-picked a high-echelon band of astute and experienced civil servants. Headed by Sir Pierson Dixon, Britain's ambassador in Paris, they are known as "the Flying Knights" because of their titles and breathless commuting between capitals. With their support, the Lord Privy Seal has won a degree of respect from the Eurocrats that is rarely granted British officials on the Continent. Round the horseshoe table in the faceless slab that houses Belgium's Foreign Ministry on Brussels' Rue des Quatre Bras, they soon discovered that Heath...
Last month, after the entire top echelon of the Plan Organization resigned because Justice Ministry gumshoes had brought all work to a standstill by asking "thousands of stupid, irrelevant and vexatious questions," Amini promised to take immediate action on Ebtehaj's case. More important, the Shah himself became a frequent visitor to a Teheran bowling alley owned by Mrs. Ebtehaj, promised to help her husband get out of jail...
...Another Annapolis man moved into the top echelon of U.S. industry as soft-spoken President John R. Rhamstine, 60, took over from Chairman William Brady, 66, as chief executive of Corn Products Co., which in 1961 rang up sales of $750 million. Rhamstine (rhymes with tramline), a onetime career Marine, went to work for a Chicago management consultant in 1929, so impressed clients at Corn Products that they hired him away. Experienced in both manufacturing and finance, he is determined to expand his company's line, which already ranges far beyond corn to such things as Shinola shoe polish...