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...Stein's call must have sounded like tunes of glory. "We consider our entire firm to be a general staff," says President Ronald Jarvis Jr.. a reserve Marine colonel who helped Oppenheimer build the company. "The ranches and the herds are the regiments and divisions." The top echelon of the 99-man staff is largely recruited from the military, because Oppenheimer believes that soldiers "know how to act in a crisis." They Certainly ought to know the routine. Oppenheimer requires bimonthly inspections o_? ranchers, using Marine fitness reports...
FOUR years ago, from the topmost balcony of Atlantic City's Convention Hall, a middle-echelon staffer from the Democratic National Committee watched Lyndon Johnson accept the nomination. Today John Criswell is hardly better known outside Democratic politics, but he has nonetheless managed to become the most powerful figure within the Democratic National Committee and the individual in complete control of arranging the Chicago convention...
...could expect scant help from Kennedy forces. Some lower-echelon R.F.K. workers did join up with the McCarthy cause last week, and one Bobby Kennedy staff member, Speechwriter Richard Goodwin, who had worked earlier for McCarthy, may very well return to his old boss. But Kennedy Aide Ted Sorensen spoke for most of the dissolving clan when he urged New York delegates who favored R.F.K. to go to the convention uncommitted. Although Kennedy and McCarthy forces share much the same ideology, many R.F.K. supporters paid such unswerving fealty to their man that they continued to resent McCarthy...
...shadow. Before King was slain, there was strong rivalry at the second-echelon level of the S.C.L.C. The shock of his death brought the new leaders together, but the organization may fall into disarray. There are no obvious, immediate challengers to Abernathy. S.C.L.C.'s executive vice president, the Rev. Andrew Young, is more nearly on King's intellectual level than is Abernathy, but he is light-skinned and strikes some Negroes as too remote. Another aide, the Rev. Bernard Lee, is so outspokenly hostile to whites that his accession might dry up S.C.L.C.'s funds...
...Williams introduced to U.S. drama the previously inadmissible evidence of the emotional outcast and the sexual invert and made the stage vibrate to the heartbeats of the violated and the vulnerable. Himself a masterly creator of characters, Williams could not confer that gift on his disciples. An entire secondary echelon of playwrights-men like William Inge, Robert Anderson and Paddy Chayefsky-became Freudian scholastics. They invented the look-through character long before the appearance of the see-through dress. But to explain a character is to explain him away, and through the general permeation of Freudian concepts, an audience...