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Ronald Reagan, who rarely has time for fiction, has read it, pronounced it "the perfect yarn" and issued an invitation to the author to visit him at the White House this month. Other avid fans of the novel in the Administration include U.S. Information Agency Chief Charles Wick, outgoing White House / Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver and the brass at the Defense Department. The Soviet embassy in Washington has reportedly bought several copies, presumably for shipment to Moscow. The object of all this high-level interest is The Hunt for Red October, a sea thriller about spooks and submarines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: One of Their Subs Is Missing | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

...edged away from show business, she joined the Colleagues, a group of several dozen socially active Los Angeles women who lunched together and put on charity fund raisers. She forged important friendships with Betsy Bloomingdale, Marion Jergensen and Mary Jane Wick, who are among Nancy's best friends today. A few years later, at 45, she went to Sacramento as the Governor's wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Co-Starring At the White House | 1/14/1985 | See Source »

...illegal, but both men have engaged in practices that, at the very least, betray a lack sensitivity to the ethical requirements of high office. One is hard-pressed to give the two the benefit of the doubt given the long list of sleeze that preceeds them: Hugel, Reed, Donovan, Wick, Allen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dishonoring the Offices | 1/10/1985 | See Source »

...editorial, "Bring on the Veto," The Crimson called for the Senate to reject Meese's nomination, but noted, "to his credit, Ed Meese's name has not been linked to the sort of sordid activity associated with colleagues like Ann Burford, James Watt, Paul Thayer, Rita Lavelle, Charles Wick or Ray Donovan." But the charges brought against Meese during the recent hearigs clearly qualify him for a choice spot on that list, representing the standard bearers of what former Vice President Walter F. Mondale has aptly termed Reagan's "sleaze factor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Creative Loans | 4/5/1984 | See Source »

...from sparing Wick more pain. Congress should defend the integrity of the USIA; the House subcomittee ought to be meeting on impeaching Wick and his counsel Harvey; and their resolution should be in favor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Put Out the Wick | 3/9/1984 | See Source »

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