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Prowling a deep Atlantic Ocean trench, Captain Robin White tamps some stray wisps of tobacco into his squat pipe, looking more like a professor than the skipper of an attack submarine. He calculates that he and his men are about as far distant in the presidential command network as one could get. But he holds the lethal stings, and his crew are essential players in the military power game. Captain White knows that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Test Run of a Stealthy Picket | 4/26/1982 | See Source »

...have to buy me that new sewing machine/ Secondhand clothes, I'm wearing secondhand clothes/ I sure hope Ed Meese sews." Among those cheering in the audience was Husband Ronald Reagan, 71, who laughed harder than anyone else, it seemed, when his wife accompanied the lines "Even my trench coat with fur collar/ Ronnie bought for ten cents on the dollar/ The china is the only thing that's new" by smashing a replica of a White House china plate on the floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 12, 1982 | 4/12/1982 | See Source »

Freshman guard TRACY TRENCH has emerged as the team's standout, averaging 11-6 points per game. Closely trailing Trench in offensive achievements are LANYA BOYER and CASSANDRA COE, who are notching about 10 and 7.5 points per game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Making a Racquet in L.A. | 2/27/1982 | See Source »

institutions. The accumulated stress spells fear. Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Adviser to Jimmy Carter, pulled his trench coat around him in Washington the other morning and said, "The foreign policy crisis that I predicted for late winter is starting to develop by early winter." He cited four areas-Poland, the Middle East, Central America and China-that have reached critical mass against a dispiriting background of European neutralism, Third World alienation, frustrations about nuclear arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Perils and Promise | 1/11/1982 | See Source »

Harrison's humor in Warlock puts the wrong man in the trench coat. Lundgren is a poet, not a flatfoot, a satyr trying his hoof at logic and deduction. Like most literary fools since Don Quixote saddled up Rosinante, Lundgren is redeemed by his own goodness. Harrison's taste for the bat ty sometimes cloys: "He really wasn't so much a fool as he was giddy about still being alive." Lengthy erotic descriptions tend to become postcoital arias. But Har rison scores well on the firing range: his humor usually strikes in the killing zone. Dashiell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hick Gumshoe | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

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