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...Mobile. Among those greeting Bush at the airport is a bevy of Azalea Trail maids in phosphorescent Scarlett O'Hara crinolines. One reporter wonders whether the Secret Service has checked under the hoopskirts: "You could hide a Stinger missile in there." Bruce Zanca, a Bush advanceman, uses a ramp phone resting on the runway to call Air Force Two. The telephone is one of the 101 special phone lines that will be installed for the Bush entourage that day at Government expense...
Harris drove a few hundred feet to the pro shop and entered. There he waved his .38-cal. snub-nosed pistol at two White House aides, David Fischer, a special assistant who travels regularly with the President, and Lanny Wiles, an advanceman. Harris ordered the pair as well as three other men into a back room. "This is no joke," he warned. "Somebody could be killed." Fischer convinced him that since the President was out on the course, Fischer would have to go deliver Harris' message himself...
...founder of Apple, chairman of the board, media figurehead and all-purpose dynamo, owns about 7 million shares of that stock. His personal worth is on the balmy side of $210 million. But past the money, and the hype, and the fairy-tale success, Jobs has been the prime advanceman for the computer revolution. With his smooth sales pitch and a blind faith that would have been the envy of the early Christian martyrs, it is Steven Jobs, more than anyone, who kicked open the door and let the personal computer move...
...Archbishop Giovanni Battista Montini, who was to become Pope Paul VI in 1963. The new Pontiff made the tall (6 ft. 3 in.), burly American cleric part of an intimate circle of papal advisers. In 1964 the Pontiff selected Marcinkus, a born organizer, to be his advanceman for trips abroad. During the visit of Paul VI to Manila in 1970, the athletic Marcinkus helped to subdue a Bolivian artist disguised as a priest who tried to stab the Pope. Paul VI put him in charge of the Vatican bank in 1969. Last year John Paul II gave Marcinkus the task...
...left a bit," insisted one American as a group of photographers and palace aides discussed possible camera angles for the ride through Windsor's 1,800 acres by the two famous equestrians. "One does not tell the Queen anything," replied a palace aide tartly. A White House advanceman had a request on behalf of National Security Adviser William Clark, who will be among Reagan's total retinue of about 300. "Judge Clark likes to ride too," he said pointedly. The Palace pointedly said no. Her Majesty would not ride with a posse...