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a-lifetime undertaking. The latest government tabulation lists 1,080 married couples in the local area, equal to 62.2 percent of the population above age 14. This includes 60.4 percent of the men and 64.0 percent of the women over 14. It is a comparativly high proportion. The odds in favor of a couple’s celebrating their golden [anniversary are now twice as I good as they were when the Eisenhowers took their vows. It is because people are living longer than they did at that time and not because the divorce rate has gone down, for it hasn’t. ; Far better, of course, is the likelihood of a silver anniversary for today’s newlyweds. [Even if a man doesn’t marry
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