Word: echeloning
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...Soviet bigwigs in the audience. It had had its world première shortly before in Leningrad, and just to be absolutely sure everything sounded the way it ought to, Composer Shostakovich had previewed the symphony on the piano for a picked group of Moscow's upper-echelon music lovers and party-line watchers...
...contents of two fields of concentration. However, even though concentration in combined fields is permitted by the University and is mentioned under the rules of some departments in the Rules Relating to college Studies, the average student is usually discouraged when he attempts to combine fields. The lower-echelon brass in the departmental offices will quicky announce, "Never heard of such a thing. I'm sure it can't be done." The trusting student usually makes no further effort...
That had to be done in careful detail by a team of second-echelon ICA and Defense Department foreign-aid experts. Some of the "surplus" could be accounted for by the fact that Passman & Co. had engaged in such statistical antics as counting a $667 million item not once but twice in arriving at their final figure. Most of the $9.5 billion has been firmly committed to the foreign-aid pipeline. Example: the U.S. has about $3.7 billion in unexpended but obligated funds for arms for its allies. But such items as tanks and planes require about two years between...
...Kansas City, Mo., former Imperial Potentate of the Shrine for North America, who founded Masonry's Order of DeMolay, last week announced a new experimental drive to restore the prestige of the nation's biggest fraternal order. Next month Land will launch a new bellwether Masonic echelon: the Ancient and Honorable Guild of the Leather Apron, with faithful attendance at Masonic affairs a prime membership qualification. First among his prospective apron wearers: Missouri's U.S. Senator Stuart Symington, Kansas Tycoon Harry Darby, ex-President Harry Truman. Such VIPs, duly enlisted, hopes Booster Land, will constitute "a band...
...Here to Exercise." Last week's executives were the vanguard of five groups from every phase of industry-most of them lower-echelon men on the way up-who will spend two weeks each this summer at the institute, a cluster of modernistic buildings perched high in the Rockies just over the continental divide from Denver. Cost: $600 for two weeks, which is usually paid by the executive's firm. (Wives may come along for $250 extra.) As soon as the executive signs up, he gets a copy of all reading material for two weeks, with a strong...