Word: dreben
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...There is no room for him to be kingmaker. There is room for him to be a destroyer of excessive ambitions," says John D. Montgomery, chairman of the Government Department, who deals periodically with Dreben on appointment matters...
...part, Dreben says, "I know at times I have been criticized for perhaps showing bias. But--and I don't want to sound Pollyannish--all of us engaged in the process try very hard to get as strong an independent committee...
...department really wants to fool the president and dean, it can do it," Dreben adds. "I don't sit there like some intelligence officer...
...Dreben, in general, likens his administrative duties to those of "a glorified clerk." His appearance seems to bear out this characterization. Short and balding at 56 years of age. Dreben sits behind a huge desk in his Emerson Hall office, surrounded by swarms of paper, manuscripts and envelopes--many of them stamped "Confidential...
...behind Dreben's unprepossessing appearance is a mind described as sharp, broadminded--and unconventional And his influence is by no means limited to tenure matters...