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...scouting job into a near science. By now, he has assembled about 25,000 qualified names for the top 400 positions that a President may be called upon to fill and has put the names and basic qualifications on computer punch cards. In addition, there is a further dossier on each person, containing information about family, recommendations, personality and professional record. For each major job, there is a "position file" that records job requirements and the history of those who, down through the years, have held the positions...
...report estimated that "at least 67 Congressional seats now held by Democrats can be won by able and vigorous Republican candidates in 1966" and recommended that "the National Committee research staff should maintain a complete dossier on the voting record and public statements of each Democratic incumbent in a marginal District, for delivery to the Republican candidate upon his selection...
...University has asked the Yearbook to compile a complete dossier on the publication's financial and legal status in preparation for talks with L. Gard Wiggins, Administrative Vice President, Loeffier said...
...cover last year (TIME, Oct. 4), the chubby, urbane French press attacheé to NATO had been busy preparing his rationale. Last week, at his trial before a state security court in Paris, he unveiled it. Posed imperiously in the box, with one hand resting lightly on a thick dossier and a thin smile playing across his face, Paâques took six hours to tell his tale of misguided intelligence. His 19-year career as an agent in the pay of the Soviet Union, Paâques argued, had been nothing more than a clandestine political seminar, an effort...
...plot can thicken. Though nearly 150,000 copies of Spy Who Came in have been sold in the U.S. alone, very few readers will know George Smiley from any other stranger who hurries by in a dark street with his hat pulled low. But Smiley has quite a dossier...