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Junior Sam shuffler makes the jump from last year's JV to the varsity six seat, and Austin Moore moves down from Harry Parker's heavies to give the lights some added punch at three...
...connection, Hanley says, "A lot of people in both education and business are watching this project. Exxon, for example, is looking at it. They have some fledgling arrangements with M.I.T., and I gather that they want more. There isn't a month that goes by that some paper shuffler like me doesn't inquire, 'How're you coming along?' David Rockefeller was in my office a few weeks ago and asked if we could make the same kind of deal with Rockefeller University...
...Chernenko's thoughts have ever differed from Brezhnev's on any issue, he has kept quiet about it; one Western diplomat in Moscow refers to him as Brezhnev's "paper shuffler." Nonetheless, Chernenko now ranks fourth in the party hierarchy, after Brezhnev, Ideologist Mikhail Suslov, 76, and Central Committee Secretary Andrei Kirilenko, 72. Chernenko now must be considered as a possible successor to his patron, or at least as a behind-the-curtain bossmaker in a post-Brezhnev...
Although some critics, including a number of top military men, dismiss him as "a good paper shuffler" and as Kissinger's errand boy within the White House, Scowcroft is hardly an automaton. He is an intellectual soldier with a superb background in international relations. A West Point graduate, Scowcroft won a master's degree and a Ph.D. in his specialty at Columbia University, also studied at Lafayette, Georgetown's School of Languages and Linguistics, the Armed Forces Staff College and the National War College. Fluent in Russian and Serbian, Scowcroft taught Russian history at West Point during...
...learned nothing. The image of the "happy worker" that he seeks to repudiate in one passage of the journal is, ironically, the paragon he has erected by the end. Coleman's odyssey is the masturbatory indulgence of a graying and cerebral paper-shuffler who is joyously finding sanguine reality in mindless sandwich-stuffing and garbagetoting. He should have left his diary in his desk...