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...stamina. Never in peacetime have so many Yanks deployed themselves across the map of Europe in search of entertainment, uplift and, dammit, a good time. It may all prove a little too much for some. But England, as usual, has the answer. Its name is Ragdale Hall. A gracious old country manor in the midst of the rolling Leicestershire hunt country, it exists to restore and rehabilitate vacationers who are suffering from too much dammit. Rooms start at $61 a day, and guests are offered psychocalisthenics, saunas, massage, beauty treatments, tennis, swimming, diet meals, no children, no tour guides...
...friend Tran Minh Cong, 45, works for the Orange County housing authority. "This country has been very gracious to me," he says. "But remember, I was forced to leave my country. I am hoping to go back there. Home is home." For now, however, he calls himself Joe Tran...
...massive, multiracial student turnout and spontaneous exhibition of admiration clearly justify the Leonard/Ross visits and prove that they did more to help Harvard's race relations than so hurt them. Ms. Ross, a gracious, intelligent international star, heard some 60 students at a South House luncheon individually express their fondness for her and explain the significance of her music to their lives. She expressed reciprocal fondness for the warmth of the Harvard admirers and deep appreciation for the Harvard Foundation's recognition. Mr. Leonard, the second prize fighter to visit Harvard in the last decade, was equally gracious and appealing...
...With a gracious nod toward U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib, Shultz modestly noted, "I have the pleasure of helping to put a little icing on the cake. At any rate, we hope it is a real good cake." Later the Secretary gave Jerusalem some good news: President Ronald Reagan would now lift the ban imposed last summer on the sale of 75 F-16 fighter planes to Israel...
...Grief fills the room up of my absent child,/ Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me,/ . . . Remembers me of all his gracious parts,/ Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form...