Word: deskman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard's Center for East Asian Studies. He has spent 18 years in Japan, has a Japanese wife, is fluent in Japanese, reads Chinese, and is one of the leading U.S. authorities on Asian literature and history. Reischauer has had State Department experience as a Far Eastern deskman during Asia's postwar upheaval (1945-46), is now Ambassador to Japan...
...much-revered dens of Pentagon bureaucracy. Defense Secretary Robert S. (for Strange, his mother's maiden name) McNamara should be tiptoeing through the cutbacks and the rest of his job with all of the lip-biting hesitancy of a young maiden at her first prom. Any deskman in the top-ranking E Ring of the Pentagon knows that a new Secretary should appear tongue-tied by military terminology, respectful of military uniform, and humble at the talk of potential military destruction. But Bob McNamara, his well-slicked hair carefully parted, his rimless glasses gleaming, approaches his job with...