Word: echelons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...choice onto the federation's 29-man executive council. None of those removed was an active leader in his individual union; all those elected to the council hold important offices in their home unions. The changes, a modest response to criticism that the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s top echelon has lost touch with its 12.8 million dues payers, lowered the average age of the council from...
...served principally as a top adviser on foreign policy to John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. Last week Mac Bundy announced that he had accepted a $75,-000-a-year job as president of the Ford Foundation, starting March 1. He will be the last of the original top-echelon New Frontiersmen to take leave of the White House...
Penkovsky's memoir-smuggled out of Russia on one of the secret routes that carried Abram Tertz's and Boris Pasternak's works westward-is gritty and gripe-ridden in its condemnation of Moscow's upper-echelon morals, and filled with "revelations" presumably intended to compromise Soviet agents...
Clustered in the next echelon are Marvin Watson, who helps Valenti in scheduling the presidential day, Jake Jacobsen, a troubleshooter and sometime legislative liaison man who aspires to succeed O'Brien as chief White House representative on Capitol Hill, and Lee White, a legal adviser, who may also depart soon...
...hours a day, 2) tell no one of his activities and 3) never discuss a mission he has been on. Asifa is typical of other terrorist groups in that its members are organized into small cells, and only the cell leader has contact with one man in the echelon above him. Thus, if an Asifa agent is captured, he can provide little information about his fellows...