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...Brett Fromson graduated from Stanford in 1976 and decided immediately to ply his economics skills in the nation's capital. His book, Running and Fighting, recounts a year of successes and disappointments as an entry level aide in the White House and on Capitol Hill. Fromson observed carefully for someone who claims to have been totally naive of the day-to-day workings of government. He distinguishes clearly among the various characters who hustle through the long cool halls of Senate office buildings: youngsters on the make, veterans clinging to a particular committee or legislator, women struggling against traditional sexism...
Probing deeper into the ways of the government itself, Fromson illustrates how allegedly cooperative bodies strive to screw one another rather than serve the people. On the Hill, congressional committees sabotage hearings sponsored by other panels in a tragicomic battle for jurisdictional preeminence. Over in the executive branch, Smithers at State witholds information from Cunningham at Commerce because when Cunningham used to work at State they had clashed over who should attend an inter-agency conference sponsored by Treasury. Everyone writes memos and formulates operative alternatives, but most of the time elected officials hear only what they want to hear...
...ROOKIE AUTHOR has chosen a suitable topic and manages to avoid the condemnations that would have made the book altogether trite. There is no easy solution for the inefficiency of American democracy; after seeing it up close, Fromson admits that. He pinpoints the underlying force propelling government: the self-interest of those the government employs. And he understands that on the one hand, self-interest can disguise itself as noble loyalty to a leader or an ideology, and that on the other, decent, hard-working folk will settle for compromise rather than risk a costly defeat at the hands...
...tragedy is," says Murray Fromson, CBS's Bangkok bureau chief, "that we get the glory, but cameramen have made the good correspondents." Belatedly aware of that fact, CBS headquarters sent a dispatch directing that reporters give plugs to the helmetless heroes who have shot the film. If the footage is especially good, the New York producers on all three networks "super" subtitles on the screen crediting the cameramen and sound...
Dunster's star fullback, Lee Sosman, was successfully bottled up by the Deacon line and only got away for one ten-yard run on a slippery field. Kirkland missed the services on the line of Captain George Blanchard, Jim Logan, Howie Fromson, and Ned Garrison, and in the backfield of blocking back Bob Libertine...