Pages for iCloud beta won't load on my MacBook Air

For about two weeks now I have not been able to open Pages for iCloud beta on my MBAir - I can open keynote and numbers beta - they load in about 2 seconds.  Pages beta was slow - the average load tiime was 65 seconds...now it I just get a spinning wheel -  the longest I experimented was 11 minutes and it sitll did not load.  Every few days I try it again. Fortunately I can get my iCloud docs by loading my regular Pages and command-open and it I get a template asking if I want docs on my computer or in iCloud - everything loads there in a nanosecond.  But the Beta is dead for me.

Pages is now working on my MacBook Air!  It is much improved from the last time I was able to load - still not perfect as it is still in beta mode, but great!...I created a multimedia document on my iPhone and once again, decided to fire up the Pages beta on my MBAir.. et voilà !  it loaded in just a few seconds and there were all my documents, including the one just created!  YAY!
Still needs the facility to edit anchored objects [a photo this time] - but says that is coming!
YAY!

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