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...affair openly when indecision, tardiness and class cutting were all temporarily legitimized-when making our bed and strolling to the Coop qualified as industrious activity. Yes, we were always an accepted couple during semester-starting periods, during the first two weeks when student sloth is as routine as newly-wed snuggle...

Author: By Robert M.mccord, | Title: A Harsh Mistress | 10/3/1981 | See Source »

...late September, when what Charles calls "the family business" will start up again in earnest. Banquets, speeches, presentations, appearances: at least 200 official functions a year, plus one major foreign trip. The monarchy, it is said repeatedly, is above politics. But the monarchy has a political effect and the wedding demonstrated it, in the same way that it suggested the promise of a new England born out of a renewed-indeed, a re-wed-past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: WHY EVER NOT?: The Royal Wedding | 8/10/1981 | See Source »

Muriel Humphrey's decision to wed High School Friend Max Brown (both over 65), Pepper nodded cheerful approval...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 20, 1981 | 7/20/1981 | See Source »

...that conclusion is being challenged by an analysis of lung cancer deaths published last month in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Epidemiologist Lawrence Garfinkel of the American Cancer Society studied data collected over twelve years on 176,739 nonsmoking women and concluded that those wed to smokers did not run a greater risk of dying from lung cancer than those married to nonsmokers. Garfinkel notes, however, that neither his study nor Hirayama's provides "definitive information" on the effects of passive smoking. "Classifying nonsmoking women on the basis of the smoking habits of their husbands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tobacco Wars | 7/6/1981 | See Source »

Hugh Carey, 62, newly wed Governor of New York and father of 13, on the possibility of his having more children: "My record speaks for itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 25, 1981 | 5/25/1981 | See Source »

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