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Another facet of her secret is sheer vitality. There is great energy in her step; when she enters a room, she makes an immediate impact. She radiates health, and for good reason. She still rides, swims regularly and is an implacable hiker. The hikes occur at her country estate in Middleburg, Virginia, and at her spread in Sun Valley, Idaho. That's where she goes to relax (always accompanied by legions of houseguests...
...find more elbowroom? Avoid weekends and famous attractions like Old Faithful; be willing to venture farther afield. The National Forest System and the Bureau of Land Management boast millions of acres of uncrowded and unspoiled territory. Veteran Tennessee hiker Jim Botts, for instance, shuns crowded Great Smoky Mountains National Park for the lesser known bogs of Joyce Kilmer Wilderness in North Carolina...
...remains unclear whether the Forest Service will ask the hiker to reimburse the government the $500,000 it took to put out the fire and the cost of damage to the forest...
...Monday saying that Gorbachev had been confirmed as General Secretary, he knew more about this Soviet leader than he had about Andropov or Chernenko. He had been told that Gorbachev is a 9-to-9, six-day-a-week worker, family man, restrained vodka imbiber, classical music fancier, hiker, reader. The problem of course is that those kinds of data tell almost nothing about Gorbachev as leader of a surly, hostile superpower. How did he rise so fast? Why was he chosen? What makes him special? There is no sure way to measure a man's soul...
...some resistance among the others. They were chafing against the autocracy of a young man whose Arcadian visions of a mythic America (Green River, Proud Mary) were as ample and unsentimental as his urban cameos (Down on the Corner), his musical allegories (Travelin' Band), his raunchy rockers (Sweet Hitch-Hiker) and his heartsick love songs (Wrote a Song for Everyone...