Stress Relief: How does Pope John Paul...

Stress Relief: How does Pope John Paul II, 70, get away from it all? He sleeps “late,” until 6 a.m., has an hour of morning prayer, hikes for hours on Alpine trails, stops at noon for prayer and a light lunch and before sunset reads German poetry outdoors. That’s the Pope’s typical day during his 10-day vacation, which began Wednesday in the Italian Alps, papal spokesman Joaquin Navarro said Saturday.

Daring Relief: A daredevil attempting to become the first person to make two successful rides over Niagara Falls in a barrel was foiled Sunday when his craft lodged on rocks just as he was about a foot from going over the brink. John David Munday, 53, of Ontario was pulled ashore and charged with illegally attempting a stunt. He was fined $1,500 in 1985 when he made it over the falls.

Legal Relief: Imelda Marcos invited the 12 jurors who acquitted her on fraud and conspiracy charges to her apartment for a thank-you lunch. Most of them came with spouses, children and friends to Marcos’s posh Second Avenue apartment in Manhattan for a Saturday dinner of roast pig and coconut cake. Joining the former Philippine first lady was her also-acquitted co-defendant Adnan Khashoggi.

Comic Relief: Some classmates of President Eisenhower’s granddaughter Anne Eisenhower didn’t want him to speak at their high school graduation because “they thought the attention would go to him, and not to them,” she said Saturday at a conference of some descendants of former Presidents in Abilene, Kan. But the President was a hit in 1967 when he said: “Ankles are neat, but knees will always be knobby,” his granddaughter recalled. “That was when the miniskirt was in style. He received thunderous applause.”