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...doesn't give interviews, and her public appearances on this trip were so fleeting. I sometimes thought I could learn as much by examining her profile on a British postage stamp." For White House Correspondent Laurence Barrett, reporting the Queen's visit to President Reagan's Rancho del Cielo involved a harrowing trip by van along narrow mountain roads, fording storm-swollen streams, then marking time in rain, wind and fog. "At times like these," he muses, "one is tempted to long for the days when royalty, both hereditary and elected, were allowed more privacy...
When she was out in the drizzle, however, Her Majesty's smile grew wanner and wanner, and sometimes disappeared. Her frustration was plain when, emerging from President Reagan's mountaintop Rancho del Cielo (Ranch in the Sky), she took a spritz of rain in the face. Recounted Brian Vine, the monocled correspondent of the London Daily Express: "She looked like she had backed a loser at the Newmarket races." Despite such signs of royal pique, her press secretary, Michael Shea, insisted that the Queen was unfazed by the weather. "She loves it," he declared. Then Shea got downright...
...Rancho California, Calif...
...developed a public relations campaign to counter pollution charges against the company. It was a job that kept her busy. In 1979 California accused the company of illegally dumping 20,000 gal. per day of poisonous waste; in 1981 the EPA branded Aerojet's liquid fuel plant in Rancho Cordova as one of the nation's worst dumps...
...contracts while Governor of Maryland, former Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, 64, paid up last week. The check was made out to the state for $268,482 (the $142,500 he pocketed plus interest). Said the ex-Veep, now a foreign trade consultant, from his luxurious desert home in Rancho Mirage, Calif.: "This just doesn't seem to add up to the kind of justice the framers of the Constitution had in mind...