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During his presidential campaign, Ronald Reagan spoke of increasing the American propaganda effort, but in this winter of budget cutting no additional money is foreseen. This week the President is expected to name a new head of the ICA. The leading candidate: California Businessman Charles Wick, a close friend who was co-chairman of the Reagan Inauguration Committee...
Reagan's allies are also preparing to lobby Congressmen in their home districts. Charles Wick, former co-chairman of Reagan's Inauguration committee, plans a closed-circuit TV program during which Administration economists will explain the plan to perhaps 15,000 Reagan loyalists around the country, who will then be expected to evangelize their Congressmen. Some White House aides are prepared to play rougher than that. Says one: "If a Republican doesn't vote for us, he will have one hell of a time getting us into his district to campaign...
Watergate is back. As a place to live, that is. The Washington apartment complex immortalized by a certain third-rate burglary has become a prime nesting place for arriving members of the new Reagan Administration. Charles Wick and Alfred Bloomingdale, California friends of the new President, have moved there. The most elegant piece of real estate in town, of course, has been taken by the Ronald Reagans, but there are still a few choice homes for sale in the Georgetown section. Prices start at about $150,000-for one of the neighborhood's quaint 7-ft.-wide townhouses...
This is Flannery O'Connor country, where souls are gnarled and agony seems the only common measure of humanity. Even the corpulent landlord, Mr. Wick, who first comes into focus as a Dickensian villain, on closer inspection becomes merely a grownup, terrified boy forever humiliated by a sadistic father...
...emphatically. Liddy clearly looked disappointed but remained calm. From the left breast pocket of his leisure suit he drew a small white candle and a matchbook. Holding a match to the candle base, he melted it until the candle stuck firmly upright on the desk. Then he lit the wick...