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COMING OFF COPLEY STREET'S opulent row of brownstones and boutiques, my first impression was that I had stumbled into the backroom of an unkempt--but uppercrust--Kinney's shoe store. Behind me was an enormous cut-glass, iron trellised, oak door; tumbling up to the ceiling on my left and right was a staggered tier of oak shelves, randomly crowded with shoes. Two clues that it wasn't Kinney's: the shoes, chunked with ice and vaguely steaming socky odor, were obviously not for sale; plus, the oak door, creaking shut behind me, was gilt with the words "International...
...past, the 20-year-old IOP has been headed by veterans of the backroom-world of politics but the first director of the Institute has mapped a plan which he hopes will inspire more Harvard students to campaign for public office...
...later said the parent company had canvassed "every other available alternative," including the possible sale of Frontier to other parties. Eventually, rumors began to grow that Newark-based People, which only five years ago threw the entire passenger-airline industry into a tailspin, might itself be quietly on the backroom auction block...
...usual, backroom politics will keep the present rulers of the Democratic party in charge even though they might not be supported by the majority of their members...
Moreover, many newer politicians, or politicians with new ideas--on the basis of which Keverian ran when he bucked McGee--will be disenchanted with a system denying the public acess to them. The usual disheartening effects of backroom politics will surely result...