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Helms became head of the plans division in 1962, when CIA's top echelon was reorganized as a result of the Bay of Pigs fiasco. At this stage, the agency was smarting under severe external criticism and riven by intramural factionalism. Helms, even-tempered and affable, managed to avoid office politics and grudges...
...Peer. Wehner holds a special terror for the Pankow regime: before the war, he was in the top echelon of the German Communist Party. He was Ulbricht's pal and peer, gave orders to many of the men who now make up East Germany's coterie of bosses. Arrested in Sweden in 1941, he renounced Communism from his jail cell and was expelled from the party. Ever since, his former comrades have regarded him as a traitor and a menace. Twice their gunmen have tried to kill him, and his appointment as All-German Affairs Minister brought bitter...
...Teaching fellows who have no other means of support feel Harvard does not pay a liveable wage," said one who is also a resident tutor. He claimed that Brandeis, M.I.T., B.U., and other local universities offer far higher pay than Harvard for comparable low-echelon teaching positions...
...looks but with the selfsame vitality, other members of the command generation are the helmsmen of U.S. society in government, politics, education, religion, science, business, industry and communications. From President Johnson, 57, and Vice President Humphrey, 55, through the entire Cabinet including Rusk, 57, and McNamara, 50, the top echelon of government is middleaged. Including that anachronistic middle-ager, Bobby Kennedy, 40, the 100 U.S. Senators tally up an average age of 57, and the House of Representatives is seven years younger at a representative 50. Sixty-three percent of this country's Nobel prizewinners in the past...
...denying the eavesdropping charge-had admitted that he was "morally and politically" at fault. With Ranković went Secret Police Boss Svetislav Stefanović, 55, whose ubiquitous UDBA spy network had kept a tough, unrelenting grip on Yugoslavia since 1946. In one stroke, Tito had dismantled the entire upper echelon of his secret police-a move unparalleled in the Communist world since Khrushchev destroyed Soviet Top Cop Lavrenty Beria...