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...enormous cost overruns. But now the financial tribulations of Lockheed (see following story), which has been directed by Congress to swallow some $200 million in cost overruns, has convinced other contractors that they had better spot and announce excess costs well in advance of production. Last week the top echelon of the Pentagon was debating the future of a major new weapons system after its builder informed the Navy that the contract was no longer economically feasible...
...controversy inside the various departments. The outgoing Presidential advisors and the upper crust of Washington's foreign service were claiming that the NLF had grown significantly weaker since the Tet offensive the previous February, that the Communist military campaign would fold in a matter of months. But the lower echelon-often closer to the truth than were their superiors-said rightly that the guerrillas were merely regrouping forces and growing stronger all the time-that, in effect, the entire American military effort had been a failure. Since the higher-ranking officials had regularly suppressed the opposing view in their conversations...
...French have one major worry-not that the Americans will ever leave, but that they will spend so much money that inflation will make it impossible for these lower-middle echelon functionaries to continue to live like kings. And, after all, isn't that what colonialism is all about-turning an accident of nationality in to permanent effortless profit...
...large drop in applicants. Miss Hall's, a notch down on the academic and social ladder, is also having trouble filling its beds. St. Timothy's, a school of Farmington's stature, accepts over half its appellants, and applications are "considerably down" at Westover, a middle-echelon school...
Suggs is now a middle-echelon manager for Jerry Campbell and Tom Scott, two 24-year-olds from Dallas who employ a ragtag army of some 170 flower children to sell carnations on the streets of several cities. The pair first tried the idea six months ago at home as a way of helping some of their jobless friends. The idea paid off so handsomely that Campbell and Scott now have flowers flown in from growers in Colorado, California and Illinois, and have hired young people to sell them in Fort Worth, Houston, Austin, Phoenix, Little Rock, Ark., and Wichita...