Word: deskman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...famous as "the purple pamphlet," had called for an independent Palestinian state or entity as a possible solution. Among the authors of the purple pamphlet: Zbig Brzezinski, then a professor of political science at Columbia University, and fellow Academic (University of Pennsylvania) William Quandt, now Brzezinski's Middle East deskman at the National Security Council...
...Hurley, deskman at the IAB: "Either UCLA or Kentucky...
...finally pushed under the wheels of an oncoming train, it becomes hard to believe that it is only the romance of investigative reporting that is driving him drearily on. In comparison to Voight's unswerving dedication, Beatty's mania seems just about as workaday as a deskman collecting box scores from the local high schools...
Directing TIME'S 20 reporters was Chief of Correspondents Murray Gart. His principal command post was an advantageously placed row of seats and desks near the podium. Beside him sat his deputy and deskman extraordinary, Dick Duncan, amid a nexus of wires, phones and beepers with which he could dispatch one of TIME'S four floor reporters to cover a disturbance in the Ohio delegation or a fracas outside the hall...