European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 28, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes tuesday april 28.1987 rapid transit of another kind boaters not Only gel a thrill but also a Chance to test heir skills As they shoot the rapids of the Hudson River Gorge the group All members of the Hudson River rafting co. I North Creek n.y., owed the Naids located to tie Adirondack mountains in Northeast new York last week. Study says longtime couples share More perceptions skills new York. Dpi the longer couples stay mar ried the More Likely they Are to become like each other eventually sharing the same thoughts perceptions and even math skills a 30-year study revealed sunday. But the ongoing study conducted by a psychology professor at the University of Washington shows wives Are More Likely to do the changing than arc their husbands women who marry men brighter than themselves get brighter and women who marry losers get worse said a. Warner Schaick who began the study in 1957 at the University of Washington in Seattle and has continued it there although he now teaches at the univer sity of Pennsylvania. There is a natural tendency for people to select people like themselves when they marry he said be fore the results were released sunday. But Liis goes even beyond  in his study Schaick has been administering a Battery of psychological Sand intelligence tests every seven years to 175 couples. Twenty two of the couples have been tested regularly Over the past 30 years and the rest joined the study 21,14 and seven years ago he said. The randomly selected volunteers have been tested on communications and verbal skills personality traits the ability to reason math skills and their ability to locate places with a map. Couples tend to quickly adopt each others personal Ity Waits and intellect during the first seven years of marriage but then level off Tor another seven to 14 year period Schaie said. As couples get older Afler their children have left Home they pick up where they left off and become increasingly similar no said. Ironically their perception of marital Bliss Mirror this trend. Couples say they arc most Happy with each other shortly after marriage become less Happy when their offspring Are Small children and then report bans happily married when their children leave Home. We have perceived that couples become like each other but it was just a perception Schaick said. We see now they Siart scoring alike on the tests. Even their math ability increases or decreases depending on their  said his study shows it is More often the wife who changes than the husband. This is probably for economic reasons since in the generations we be been studying men arc still the Pri Mary breadwinners he said. Liberty Bell replica on 28-c/fy tour Philadelphia up a nearly Isact replica of the Liberty Bell cast in the same English foundry As the original but without its trademark crack is on a 2b-Citj tour intended to rekindle the spirit of the Constitution the tour was sponsored by nichiren Choshu Soka Zakkai of America u Buddhist Lay organization that counts musicians Tina Turner and her Hie Hancock and Dallas actor Patrick Duffy among its 500,000 members nationwide said spokesman a Canna nurse. During the Lour of the 3, new Freedom Bell which started sunday the group Hopes to collect 200,000 signatures from people who will pledge to work for Ike principles of Freedom embodied in the cons dilution nurse said. The Buddhist Oil animation intends to present the Bell to the City of Philadelphia As a fourth of july gift on its return. Nurse said. The significance of the new Freedom Bell is to re awaken every american to the spirit of the founding fathers who pursued and accomplished the establish ment of Liberty of All said George Williams general director of the group. The working new in whom Bell was cast at the White Chapel Bel foundry lid. Of London where the Liberty Bell was cast in 1751, nurse said. The Liberty Bell was cracked on its trip to America and recast in Philadelphia by pass and Stawic. Unlike the original 2,080-Pound Bell the new Bell does t have a crack nurse said. Stateside coast guard stops ship filled with 40 haitians Miami Beach. Haap a freighter packed with about 40 haitians was stopped by a . Coast guard patrol boat off North Miami Beach. The freighter deliverance discovered one mile offshore during a routine morning patrol was or dered to follow the patrol boat Back to the coast guard station on Miami Beach said Petty officer Brenda Toledo. The Crew of the freighter did not resist the Board ing Toledo said. The officer said the haitians appeared to be preparing to make a night Landing. The haitians were turned Over to the custody of the immigration and naturalisation service and five Crew members were arrested authorities said. Mobil corp. Announces move to Fairfax a. New York not the Mobil corp. Has announced that ii will move its Headquarters Over the next three years from new York City to a suburban office Cample in Fairfax. A. The company said the move from its office Tower on East 42nd Street in Manhattan would affect about 1,900 employees but an internal memorandum distributed to employees suggested thai some jobs May be eliminated As Mobil continues a drastic staff reduction As part of a five year Effort to Cut coils and consolidate operations. Mobil the nation s fifth target corporation Hai occupied in j2-Lory building Asih hindquarters since it was built in 1957. In the Laic 1970s, the company Organ to restructure its operations by Rudoi aging Jomoc Mac marketing and refining divisions to a new can Plov it developed in Fairfax. The move of those divisions Nelv Clad about 1.400 employees in i i new York office. To accommodate i he Mil of the Headquarters staff the company plans to build a new office building in Fairfax