Word: echelons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ToughTalk. Lower-echelon officials took up the cry. A government declaration urged that the war be pressed "until total victory liberates our whole national territory." Toughest talk of all came from Khanh's air force commander, mustachioed Commodore Nguyen Cao Ky, who packs a bone-handled six-shooter in a Texas-style holster. At a news conference, Ky embarrassed his U.S. advisers by openly confirming that for three years South Vietnamese sabotage teams have been slipping into the north on the ground and by air. "I myself dropped special-forces units into North Viet Nam," boasted Ky. Actually...
...they exploded in giggles when he gagged it up about women in government. Said the President: "We must make more use of the talents of women in order to have a better government. But one lady-Senator Smith-did misunderstand my feeling. I was talking about an echelon below...
Computers promise to make U.S. business far more efficient, possibly bigger, certainly more powerful. However it affects lower-echelon employment, the computer is sure torequire a new breed of top manager: men who combine the talents of the big-businessman, the public administrator and the scientific researcher. Where will such paragons come from...
...Angeles today. Played by amateur actors like Delos Yellow Eagle and Frankie Red Elk, The Exiles slices a depressing day out of a set of static and pointless lives, showing a lost people who imitate the language of Negroes as if in aspiration to belong to a higher-echelon minority. They lie around in their grimy pads listening to westerns on TV with lines like "reckon that'll teach them moonfaced Indians to have more respect for a white man." Or they drive to a rubbly hilltop and hold war dances with jugs of wine, the galactic lights...
...existence of an upper echelon within the Senate, and occasionally within the House, has long been a public secret in Washington. Everyone knows it exists, but the men who belong to the inner circle take only quiet pride in their membership. The men who hope eventually to work their way into this conclave know they hurt their own chances by talking about it. Senator Joseph Clark (D-Penn.), who is not a member, insured his continued ostracism by devoting three days on the floor last February to a description of what he called the "Senate Establishment" and to a list...