Word: echeloning
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...Gambit. The men responsible for the big stumble did not suffer. Mao Tse-tung retained the all-powerful chairmanship of the Communist Party, and, though he did step down as chief of state, he was replaced by Organization Man Liu. But there were scapegoats. Three weeks ago, 200 middle-echelon planners and administrators, who were guilty of accurately predicting the failure of the big leap, were dismissed from their posts...
...official participation and intelligently organized unofficial participation does not seem to have penetrated to the Administration. Contrary to a New York Times story, the State Department is not encouraging students, quietly or otherwise, to have anything to do with the Festival. There does exist a feeling among many lower-echelon officials of the Department, that a group of well-informed and intelligent Americans would help the United States and serve to counter-balance the Communist propaganda activities. The Administration, however, maintains its policy that anybody who has contact with Communists will be contaminated, and upon return pollute the United States...
...Force, a sprinkling of ambassadors-all of whom seemed to glow at Washington's cultural boom. The opera company is not alone. Washington also has a promising ballet company and the fine National Symphony, whose reputation has grown steadily, today is not far from the top echelon of U.S. orchestras. This season the orchestra hopes to repeat last year's feat of landing in the black. Propelled by Conductor Howard Mitchell, the symphony this summer goes on a ten-week Latin American tour, also gives some 30 concerts a year for visiting teen-age tourists...
Louisiana's Passman was piqued at the leak because, he said, it would give "top-echelon people downtown more time to conduct their unprecedented pressure campaign for more money." Translation: he had hoped to sneak the cuts through the full Appropriations Committee next day, before the Eisenhower Administration got a chance to renew its all-out fight for an adequate aid program...
...Teachers. The authors' recommendations for attracting skilled teachers are blunt: raises should be given according to merit, not seniority, and teachers should be paid "at least as well as the middle echelon of executives...