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...travels surrounded by four bodyguards, stays in $200-a-night hotel suites and hands out $5 tips. His hosts are often given precise instructions to provide him with a telephone at all times, a bed for a nap in the afternoon, even a piano to play by night. Security guards at his Washington headquarters are supplied with his picture and told never to ask for his identification. The United States Information Agency (then called the International Communication Agency) was a neglected foreign policy backwater before Charles Z. Wick, 66, became its director in 1981, but the former Hollywood moviemaker, venture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Reagan Crony on the Line | 1/9/1984 | See Source »

...point during the crisis, Young, who had been at the helm for 8½ hours without a break, retired for a nap. As the shuttle program boss, Air Force Lieut. General James Abrahamson, later explained, "There's an old rule among test pilots: when there is a problem, then just slow down and back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Those Balky Computers Again | 12/19/1983 | See Source »

Lancôme's expensive illusion is about to take form. Isabella is not in view yet; she is taking a 20-minute, or $375, nap. But LaMicela is at work, as are a film director, a cameraman, gofers, riggers and grips, and several black-and-white cows. The reason for all of this impressive activity-the concept, as agency philosophers put it-is that Ô de Lancôme is "a Saturday-afternoon fragrance." The woman who wears it is fresh and casual, and, although breathtakingly lovely, not obviously paired with a lover. Such a wild flower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A Model Woman. She Gets $9,000 a Day | 5/2/1983 | See Source »

...their Yard headquarters and sighed with relief. About 30 minutes later, Anderson and Neal received a call from the airport saying they were missing the Australian Secretary of Defense. After a short frantic search, they located the gentleman who bored with the press conference, had "snack off for a nap...

Author: By Meredith E. Greene, | Title: Concierge of Harvard Yard | 4/29/1983 | See Source »

...Monday, Stone and his companions left San Salvador on a TACA International Airlines flight bound for Miami. During the stopover in Belize, a vacationing television reporter from Tampa, Mark Feldstein, boarded the plane. He settled into a seat in front of the Stone party and leaned back for a nap. Feldstein soon realized that the men behind him were drafting statements for Reagan and the Salvadoran President about the election announcement. At one point, one of Stone's companions noted, "That's worded for domestic political consumption." Feldstein grabbed an air-sickness bag and began to scribble down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Disquiet on the Southern Front | 3/14/1983 | See Source »

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