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...result of the Adirondack region's slow physical secession from the rest of New York State, according to Joseph Steim, a research assistant in the department of Geological Sciences and a seismologist at Harvard's Oakridge observatory at Harvard, Mass. "The entire region has been undergoing a general uplift for more than a hundred million years," Steim added, explaining that "nonuniform stresses within the region results in fracturing...
...overriding memories of good times. As one Rome-based American allows, "It's a great year to be in Europe, to be thin and to have dollars." And 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...
...chief since May, John Moody too has been observing the buildup for the Pope's visit. He talked with clergymen, officials and ordinary Polish citizens about what the Pope's homecoming might accomplish: "When the experts talk," Moody says, "they use words like spiritual renewal and moral uplift as though they were code words for political pluralism and a return to free trade unionism. But when the Poles talk, it becomes obvious that those intangible qualities-renewal of spirit and outlook-are precisely the things Poles lack most dramatically and desire most acutely...
...much the same uplift have people always foraged for the small, personal glimmers in the lives of the powerful. Several U.S. Presidents endeared themselves to the public through their pastimes: Ike's golf, Kennedy's touch football, Truman's piano playing. Hoover took to fishing and throwing a medicine ball, though not at the same time. Nixon had no hobbies to speak of, unless one counts the knotting of one's ties. The most interesting pastimes were those of Calvin Coolidge, who reportedly took pleasure in the mechanical horse and pitching hay. The former probably delimited...
...least one prominent Democrat admits that this line might indeed lessen the large gains in congressional representation that his party had hoped to win. Says Tony Coelho, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee: "Now there is a psychological uplift to those who are not unemployed or facing bankruptcy. If the psychology of fear is reversed, then people will listen to the Republican message. We will still pick up seats, but not as many." Most estimates, including Coelho's, cluster around a Democratic gain often to 15 seats in the House, not particularly impressive for the opposition party...