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...troops checked every possible loose rock at the places where he was to set down. The Pope nonetheless did his best to get a taste of past climbing days in Poland. At the Brenva Glacier he insisted on a solitary, blissful 20-minute stroll on the ice. On Mount Chetif (elevation 7,687 ft.), John Paul spoke briefly, decrying recent terrorist attacks in Karachi and Istanbul as "horrendous and almost unbelievable acts." Then, waving away helping hands with open irritation, he climbed unassisted down and up a narrow, rocky path to pray at a 13-meter-tall stone statue...
...President also loves horses. His personal favorite is the Anglo-Arabian El Alamain, a gift from former Mexican President Jose Lopez-Portillo, and during the just ended Reagan vacation, the First Rider and his mount were out daily. Nancy is partial to a quarter horse named No Strings. The stable sextet is rounded out by Gwalianko, a retired Arabian; two younger Arabians, Catalina and El Saraff; and Dormita, another quarter horse. As for the unnamed ducklings, they were a recent purchase by Caretakers Trisler and Barnett. (Somebody hold those fellows back.) The rabbits started showing up intermittently this summer, prompting...
...Rocky Mount...
...American states. Teachers, merchants, veterinarians and mechanics from the small towns link the farmers and help orchestrate community life. For the moment, some of the small towns are in more distress than the farmers. The Government provides no subsidy for grocers and drygoods merchants. Publisher Alan Smith, of Mount Ayr, Iowa, (pop. 1,900) used to run two-thirds of a page of delinquent taxes in his Record-News every year. Now he runs six or eight pages. How long before his Ringgold County must yield on the quality of its schools and public services? Not yet, he insists. Adversity...
Whatever posterity's verdict, Andrews is not alone in his enthusiasm. "I couldn't believe it, they were so powerful and beautiful," waxes J. Carter Brown, director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, who next May is planning to mount the first Helga exhibition. "You are looking over the shoulder of a great master at work." Thomas Hoving, editor in chief of Connoisseur magazine and the leading impresario of fine-art hyperbole, proclaims that the group is "unique in art history -- to suddenly have before you this monumental body of great American painting. It's a mighty poke...