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Fact No. 2: Last week the entire top echelon of the Swiss government-the seven-man Federal Council, or Cabinet-was off on vacation...
...Second-echelon aides had more specific suggestions. Treasury Under Secretary Paul Volcker suggested a voluntary wage-price freeze. Treasury Under Secretary Charls Walker*backed Senator Jacob Javits' original plan to have some group identify and spotlight major inflationary wage-and-price hikes before they take place, but did not feel it was a job for the CEA. Trying to reconcile all this, Speechwriter William Safire wrote ten drafts before a reluctant consensus was reached...
Hardened drug users in business are generally in their early 20s and usually in low-echelon jobs. The ghetto black is still the heaviest heroin user but as his need for the drug grows, he usually drops out of the labor force. The number of white workers dependent on heroin is increasing, but the whites still tend to less addictive drugs, notably barbiturates and amphetamine capsules. Most users in industry turn on with marijuana, or pot; if nothing else, it can diminish their ability...
...that, an estimated 5,000 executives and middle-echelon employees have been transferred to Houston in the past three years. Shell Oil Co. is in the process of moving about half its staff there from Manhattan. Other recent refugees from metropolitan New York include Occidental Chemical Co. and Cooper Industries, an engine and tool producer. At some point, Houston may want to adopt as its official motto: Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses...
Despite the failure of their proselytizing efforts, the lawyers felt that their trip was not wasted. Since 1940, New York law firms have provided the country with seven top Cabinet officers and scores of second-echelon officials. The fact that these same firms are now swelling the ranks of the Government's opposition should provide dissenting members of the Administration with fresh ammunition that Nixon's policies have split even the most established of the Establishment...