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...three months this year, made a $50,000 profit in April. Neelands believes that the economics of the airline business will eventually force Capital to merge if he can build it up into a desirable property. This week he will start to salvage Capital by shaking up its second-echelon executives. Next, he hopes to get rid of Capital's money-losing feeder routes. Says he: "If we were relieved of our Tobacco Road route and the feeder-line system, Capital could make money...
...Howard faction of liberals crystallizes, so does an anti-Howard clique of conservatives, and the short-fused passions of left v. right detonate. Playing Zola to Howard's Dreyfus is a man of good will and strong character, Lewis Eliot, the upper-echelon bureaucrat and first-person narrator who either dominates or "I" witnesses most of the Snow novels. What Eliot gradually collects is not so much the evidence to clear Howard as the ambiguous human motives-sly, cynical, stoic, self-serving, occasionally selfless-that convict all would-be judges...
...Dutchmen from deportation to Polish Galicia and the Ukraine and 60,000 Jews from death in the gas chamber, moved to Sweden in 1943 and became a Swedish citizen ten years later; of a heart attack; in Hamm, Germany. Kersten was a movingly human figure in the upper echelon of Nazi Germany. Half in despair, half in admiration, Himmler told Italy's Count Ciano: "He is a great nuisance and gives me trouble all the time with his lists of names and his petitions for mercy. What a crew! Dutch. Jewish and German traitors. I don't know...
...book is an important memoir for anyone with a serious concern for the moral and political history of the last 40 years. Those who make themselves responsible for every fallen sparrow-or the twisted ear of every tailor-give themselves godlike rank but inevitably end in quite another echelon. This, if there is one, is Regler's message to his generation...
Paul Delouvrier, 45, was known until last week as a top civil servant and a skilled economist. After serving in the Resistance, he went on to high-echelon positions in the French Finance Ministry. Almost every U.S. loan to France from 1947 to 1953 (some $800 million) was in fact largely negotiated by Delouvrier. A devoted European, he won a reputation as a tough negotiator in the European Coal and Steel Community. In 1958 De Gaulle sent him on a fact-finding mission to Algeria. On his return to Paris, Delouvrier expressed concern over the way some officials and army...