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...balance the political appointees, the commission urged creation of a politically neutral "senior civil service"-an echelon of from 1,500 to 3,000 well-paid career men whose function it would be to ensure efficient continuity from one Administration to another. Between the political and nonpolitical groups a line should be drawn defining a "clear division of labor," which the commission said does not presently exist. At the lower levels of Government service, the commission recommended less politics, suggesting that 1) political clearance be eliminated for 32,000 rural mail carriers; 2) U.S. marshals and field employees...
...Echelon Job. Producer-Director Fielder Cook gave Patterns just the proper elaboration of office gossip, politics and detail and, as often happens in a soundly built play, all the actors turned in superlative jobs. Top honors went to chunky Ed Begley, one of TV's most valuable utility actors, who brought to his role of a businessman hagridden both by his boss and his ulcer a fine pitch of stubborn and despairing dignity...
...Writer Rod Serling is another of TV's homegrown dramatists. An ex-paratrooper and amateur boxer, Serling had corporative experience only in a stint with Crosley Corp. in a low-echelon job After World War II, Serling wrote his own local dramatic show for Cincinnati's station WKRC-TV. Last year, after selling 20-odd scripts to Kraft, Studio One, Danger and Lux Video Theater, he moved to Connecticut where he is now working on a drama for the U.S. Steel Hour. Says Serling: "I'm one of the few TV writers who doesn't hope...
...example, classifies every employee from Type One (draperies, wall-to-wall carpeting, walnut desk, etc.) down to Type Four (no private office, oak desk). A big Manhattan company has set up a chart for every contingency in preparation for moving into a new building now under construction. A top-echelon man gets 280 sq. ft., "furnished to taste," with or without private washroom, depending on whether he is a director. Lesser lights will get 210 sq. ft., again furnished to taste, but now "within limits." Engineers and others who need privacy get 100 sq. ft., standard metal desks...
...only sin, said Dedijer, had been to keep associating with "my old friend" Djilas, though he never had entirely agreed with Djilas' criticisms of the party hierarchy. "There is a struggle on the lower echelon," said Dedijer, "but there is no fight on the top level for control. It would be nonsense to say that anything can challenge Tito's position. However, a man like Kardelj, whom I've always regarded as a true democrat, is being maneuvered by party discipline into a position that will put my blood on his hands...