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...Friday night and 30 married couples have arrived at the Ramada Inn in Woburn, Mass., where they will spend the weekend without looking at a clock, phoning the baby sitter back home, watching TV, or even stepping outside the motel. Under the guidance of three couples who have gone to similar weekend sessions and with the help of a Roman Catholic priest, the 60 men and women will spend 44 hours quizzing themselves and each other about their relationships. Most of them are there because they want their marriages to be better or because friends who have undergone Marriage Encounter...
...When one writes about it, this process sounds preposterous; when one is there, it is impossible not to feel its power," reports TIME'S Ruth Galvin, who attended last month's Woburn meeting with her husband John. "It sets out to make people face their deepest feelings about the contract that they made on their wedding day - and it succeeds. When they discover that they can trust each other even with their fears, the couples seem suddenly to comprehend the meaning of love." Indeed, the process is so popular that on a typical weekend, 115 Encounters...
PAUL TRUSTEN Woburn, Mass...
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...interviews last week with a few dozen newly eligible voters, TIME correspondents found a full spectrum of attitudes from Woburn-type militancy to sun-drenched, poolside apathy, from an interest in the presidency to thoughtful concern about state and local issues. A sampling...