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...pain factor. But when you stop, it's like coming down from a high." Like some proud corps of crack troops, the new Spartans are dedicated to an ideal of fitness that far surpasses conventional images of weekend joggers. "I enjoy being strong," says Houston Librarian Amy Mollberg, 39, who lifts free weights. "I have a sense of security knowing that I have the stamina and strength to do almost anything I want to do, physically. It's O.K. for women to be strong now." Sums up Chicago Attorney Jerry Mayster, 37, whose weekday routine includes both weight...
Lawrence Wikander, a retired librarian of Williams College, fascinated an audience with comparisons between Reagan and Coolidge. Both had trouble with Nicaragua (Coolidge sent Marines to keep the peace in 1926 at the request of the Nicaraguan President); both were harder workers than is commonly believed; Reagan was an instant Eureka College campus leader while Coolidge bloomed late at Amherst. Even Amherst's crusty historian, Henry Steele Commager, an ardent fan of F.D.R.'s, had a kind word: "Coolidge's virtues were chiefly negative ones, but then, negative virtues are always preferable to positive vices...
...everyone, however, is enthusiastic about the electronic Academic American. Librarian Rosalie Pagano at Palisades Park High is worried that "students are relying too much on it. I wish they would transfer their interest to books." Observes Kenneth Kister, editor of the Encyclopedia Buying Guide: "Academic American was created under extreme deadline pressure. It's good, but not as well written as World Book or as comprehensive as the Encyclopaedia Britannica...
...Librarian, I am cold, Pray you, undo this button, Thank you, sir. Do you not see the gazelle on the rushing waters? I know he looks at me. ("What if Harry Levin wrote the poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay?"). I am sleepy and the oozy weeds about me twist "Chirp...
Heather E. Coles, librarian of Hilles and Lamont libraries, said she asked two weeks ago that the air conditioning be turned on earlier than usual this year...