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...behind Korean time, the news arrived before midnight. The reports were distributed simultaneously to the State Department's seventh-floor Operations Center, the Pentagon's basement National Military Command Center and the Situation Room in the basement of the White House. Duty officers immediately began calling second-echelon officials at their homes; Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara was not alerted until 12:23 a.m. By 12:45, White House Aide Walt Rostow was convinced that the situation was serious and drove to the White House, arriving there at 1:15. Shortly after 2 a.m., he telephoned the President...
...executives, Poland is considering retiring 10% of its motorized fleet and chauffeurs. Bulgaria has decreed strict restrictions on who can use official cars. In Rumania, where Romînia Libera reports that an "astronomical" amount is spent on chauffeured cars, the government has ordered their use limited to top-echelon people. Rumania is also launching a drive to find "useful work" for the displaced chauffeurs and, along with Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia, is trying to sell the cars to the bosses to console them for the loss of their drivers. As a result, many a party panjandrum who once arrived...
Also upsetting was the threat by Negro Comedian Dick Gregory to somehow block the Democratic National Convention unless the city acceded to such demands as appointing a Negro to the "top echelon of the police department." Vowed Daley: "No one will take over a single street or a political convention, now or next summer...
...scandal involves a high-society prostitution ring that catered to the top echelon of Lisbon's social, business and political set. Operating almost under Salazar's nose, the girls worked out of a seemingly innocent dress shop on Lisbon's chic Avenida Roma. Many of them were teen-agers and even younger, and, according to Portuguese officials, they performed for their clients most of the tricks and perversions known to pornographic literature...
Overburdened Aides. Nor has Johnson succeeded in stimulating much new thought or inspiring men to outdo themselves-a fact underscored by the impending departure of such talented second-echelon officials as Assistant Attorney General John Doar or State Department Policy Planner Zbigniew