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...cent of new marriages are doomed to failure. Yet people still fall in love and decide to wed. The rest of your life is a hard thing to face alone, so security becomes a reason to marry. Love and lust, of course, play their parts, but, except for the luckiest couples, their roles decline about the same time as the wedding gifts begin to rust, tarnish, yellow or malfunction. And you don't have to be married to feel the strain of that imposing bond; our lives are filled with couples who hang on to each other, bored but afraid...
...agents to hunt down Kennedy in Texas. He found his job in the Texas School Book Depository building by chance, and long before it was known that Kennedy planned to ride in a motorcade past the building. If the killing actually was planned by foreign agents, Oswald was the luckiest assassin in history. It is far more likely that he saw his unexpected opportunity-and took...
...night, may be the best forward in the nation. Peter Shier, who coach Dick Bertrand says has "the hardest shot in college hockey," is a blue-chip prospect as a pro defensemen. Goalie Steve Napier is certainly not the best netminder in the East, but he may be the luckiest...
Manny Santel is doubtless the luckiest man in Mosquitos. A skilled worker and union leader at the Aguirre mill, he won a $17,000 lottery. So he had a new house built and paid for Senora Santel's sterilization after only five children. But he is an exception, a relatively sophisticated returnee from New York (those who come back are called Neoricans, a term touched with envy and resentment). "My brother," he says, "has 21 kids. Nobody around here pays much attention to the birth control program. The women don't like the pills. They are simple people...
Sugarloaf Mountain in Maine has been the luckiest of new England ski areas so far this year, logging over two-feet of natural snow. In addition, Sugarloaf has expanded its snow-making capacities and now boasts top to bottom skiing on artificial snow. Sugarloaf is a four and a half or five hour drive from Boston, but more and more die-hards each year are discovering just how worthwhile the trip can be. They say that the mountain never gets too crowded--a blessing for anyone who has tried Waterville, Stowe, Snow or Killington on a Saturday. And Sugarloaf...