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...punish each other. Now the woman scorned makes the cad pay: alimony may cost the husband one-third of his income, in some cases may continue even after his wife remarries. Children become pawns in the bargaining process: if he holds down alimony, she holds down visiting privileges. The hotter the fight, the higher the fees; some unscrupulous lawyers even inflame the sides to inflate the charges. Meanwhile, no one represents the children. They are commonly awarded like trophies to the "innocent" party, who is not necessarily the best parent. The spouses usually part more bitterly than they began...
...discovery of the comet a month ago, a team of Soviet astronomers has predicted that it will collide with the sun instead of passing by it. American scientists maintain that it will make it by, but they are puzzled by observations that show the comet to be much hotter than expected. They also admit the possibility of an explosion due to solar stresses...
...losing his way to the lavatory in Los Alamos, Fermi cycling his way to work, the sweat-pearled faces of the scientists as they eased the nuclear core into the bomb case and then took their places to watch the results of their own handi work: a sudden fire hotter and brighter than...
...start of the 1961 season, they moved to the St. Paul-Minneapolis area and changed their name to the Twins. In four seasons, they have twice finished in the first division, a feat they had accomplished only 20 times in 60 years in Washington. And never have they been hotter than now. They have won nine of their last twelve games, including three out of four with those damn and now doomed Yankees, and at week's end were leading the American League by four games...
...points in less than three years), and were concerned about the possibility that the U.S. economy was heading for a slowdown in the months ahead. Some experts began to look far afield for excuses for a fall they felt was coming. They were bothered about prospects of a hotter war in Viet Nam, about possible currency devaluation in Britain, about current recessions in France and Japan. Then along came Bill Martin with his "1920s" speech-and that did it. The market's plunge since then has cost stocks a paper loss of $20 billion. On the Street last week...