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Pleasure cruises were once reserved for people with plenty of money and plenty of time. No longer. The success of The Love Boat on TV helped stir demand for ocean voyages, and cruise companies are enlarging their fleets. Since 1981 the industry has launched seven new ships, bringing the number of luxury liners serving the U.S. to about 75. In addition, many vessels have been rebuilt to increase their capacity. This expansion has set off a fierce competition for passengers, driving down the price of a brief cruise to within the means of most pocketbooks...
...seemed as if the Pontiff had decided to avoid major political or doctrinal controversy. Instead, on his 23rd foreign tour, the first papal visit ever to Canada, John Paul concentrated on his forte: warming the crowds who come to see him, then using the glow he inspires to stir reflection...
Baker has become the most effective majority leader since Lyndon Johnson. With a polemical convention speech last week, he set out to prove that he had the requisite "fire in the belly" to run for national office and stir crowds. He is quitting the Senate this year to get away from the Washington grind and, as he put it, "reestablish a more distant and civilian perspective." Dole hopes to succeed Baker as majority leader. Their candidacies in 1988 could test whether an effective legislator can also be a popular vote getter...
...privately? 'If you burn your immediate past there is nothing left but ashes which are all very well for those heads that like nothing better than to be sprinkled with ashes,' she wrote in the middle of the McCarthy era. She felt far too keenly the stir of the revolutionary idea to be able to abandon...
...accounts the President is by nature a passive man who needs to be set in motion by others. Deaver knows how and when to stir him, how to construct an agenda that Reagan then cheerfully pursues. Like no one except Nancy Reagan, he knows the President's inner feelings. He reads the President's diaries, which Reagan dictates into a tape recorder. Deaver's office, at the insistence of the President, adjoins the Oval Office. He is privy to the problems Reagan has with his children. At the end of a hard day last year, the President...