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...began checking into Army records. As head of the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations, which tracks down Nazi war criminals, Ryan was accustomed to false leads and painstaking detective work. This time, however, the chief U.S. Nazi hunter quickly recognized the shameful secret buried in the sheaf of memos. "After a few minutes with those files," he recalls, "it was obvious the charges were serious...
...bicyclists have received unusual media attention throughout the trip, appearing on more than 30 television and radio talk shows, numerous news programs, and in a variety of newspapers both in large cities and small towns, local organizers said yesterday. They displayed a sheaf of clippings and described several awards and proclamations received by the bicyclists over the past month and a half...
...resume was impeccably top drawer: Exeter prep school education, editorial chairman of the daily Crimson as an undergraduate at Harvard, graduate of Harvard Law School, sometime student at the London School of Economics. He has a book in progress about Zionist history and has written an impressive sheaf of neoconservative pieces on politics and foreign affairs for the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the New Republic and Commentary. "He's very much a real intellectual," says one of his editors. "His passion is the world of ideas. He is very, very brilliant, the most impressive young...
...Fanny's words, "very gaga" and "deaf as an adder." He repeats questions that he has asked and answers questions that have not been asked. He guards his latest incoherent manuscript like a toothless lion and then flings it through the air Like a sheaf of errant snowflakes...
...dollar bill, the American eagle is represented clutching an olive branch in one talon, a sheaf of arrows in the other. Ronald Reagan has been trying to present a somewhat similar image of his policy toward the Soviet Union: a string of arms-control proposals coupled with unyielding resistance to Soviet expansionism. Touring Europe two weeks ago, the President waved the olive branch so heavily that he stirred talk of a "new Reagan"-flexible, centrist and eager to negotiate. But last week, almost on the eve of new U.S.-Soviet disarmament talks, he decided to highlight the other aspect...