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Although Skiddy, as his friends call him, is Harvard's senior administrator, he is not nearly at the top of the University's ladder of power. He is a third echelon administrator, a step below men like Charles P. Whitlock, the dean of the College, who is in turn a step below the upper echelon of men like John T. Dunlop, dean of the Faculty, and, of course, President Derek...
...thorough medical examination every year or so, doctors should be able to pick up the earliest signs of incipient disease or disability, and thus treat his condition most effectively and economically. But until recently, the omnibus "multiphasic health testing" approach was confined largely to corporate executives and high-echelon employees whose companies considered them valuable enough, in balance-sheet terms, to justify annual expenditures of $200 each or more for checkups. These screenings were performed by such organizations as New York City's Executive Health Examiners, serving the top brass of 400 companies, or the Greenbrier Clinic at White...
...joined ITT, where he oversaw the operation of Avis, Sheraton hotels and several of the conglomerate's other subsidiaries. Ireland professed to know little about broadcasting, but CBS hired him last year to bring fresh talent to the network's top echelon in a period of sagging revenues...
...pronounced contrast to the quiet scene that had greeted Nixon's arrival a week earlier, Chou received a hero's welcome of unprecedented proportions. As he stepped from his plane wearing a heavy blue overcoat against a biting winter wind, he was met by the entire top echelon of his government, delegations of students, workers and soldiers, and some 5,000 "spectators" who waved bouquets and shouted slogans hailing "Chairman Mao's revolutionary diplomatic line...
...administered Naples, for example, started handing out four-day jail terms to war-weary troops for minor dress infractions, Mauldin-and Willie and Joe-were there with a cartoon. "Them buttons was shot off when I took this town, sir," a bedraggled Willie tells a well-scrubbed rear-echelon lieutenant. In Mauldin's view, noncombat officers were there to be put down...