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...Rather, her agenda is highly personalized. Nancy Reagan is single-minded in her intention "to protect Ronnie," and to that end she is a hard-eyed judge of the officials serving him. "Her first concern is the people around the President," says one of those people, Reagan Strategist Stuart Spencer, "because she knows that they are the ones who will make things happen." Again and again, she has used her leverage to effect important personnel changes right up to the Cabinet level. There is now a rather effective upstairs-downstairs alliance between her and the leading West Wing moderates, Deaver...
...assistants; she first tried to mediate the potentially embarrassing dispute between Reagan and the men, then made sure the aides' dismissal did not come before the crucial New Hampshire primary. Later that year, when it was time to choose the White House chief of staff, she, Deaver and Spencer successfully backed James Baker, then a newcomer to the Reagan ranks, over Edwin Meese, a Reaganite of 13 years' standing. After National Security Adviser Richard Allen became embroiled in a controversy involving $1,000 that a Japanese magazine had intended to give the First Lady in exchange for an interview...
...writers whose distinctive voices fill the pages of Ruas' book with shoptalk and gossip have learned to work against this unpromising backdrop. From Eudora Welty, 75, to Scott Spencer, the 39-year-old author of Endless Love, these eloquent veterans also know how to plug along through praise, criticism and indifference. Some careers grow slowly, like redwoods. Each Welty story added a ring to her reputation until today she is treated with the reverence accorded endangered species. Joseph Heller works hard just to keep the standing won nearly 25 years ago with Catch-22. William Burroughs, whose satiric fantasies...
Princeton applications fell slightly, down 20 from last year. Out of this year's 1448 applicants, the university accepted a little more than 25 percent, deferred 69 percent and rejected 4 percent, said Assistant Dean of Admissions Spencer I Reynolds...
...city is infected by white racist violence. Last month Auto Mechanic Spencer Goffer and his family moved into the Island, a white working-class neighborhood. The first night the Goffers spent in their new home, a mob of neighbors milled out front for six hours, shouting curses, throwing rocks through the windows and waving guns. The Goffers moved out the next day. In the same neighborhood, a Hispanic family's house was fire bombed on Thanksgiving. The same week, in a white neighborhood on the southwest side, a black family's house was set afire with a Molotov...