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...than a year after Frances' death, Henry the widower married Susan Blanchard, stepdaughter of Oscar Hammerstein II. They honeymooned on St. John's in the Virgin Islands, free from the family and the phone. Peter, 10, chose that moment to aim a gun at his stomach and pull the trigger. The slug went through his liver. "I don't know if I was trying to commit suicide or not," says Peter. "Since then, the idea has occurred to me many times to do my self up, but righteously...
Pocketbook Protesters. Yet Republican leaders concede that at best their hopes are fragile; they could easily be undermined by events. No one can be certain that the South Vietnamese can handle Communist insurgency without massive U.S. help-and any U.S. re-escalation of the war could trigger a broader public protest than before. Crime, pollution, and deterioration in the quality of urban life are accelerating despite political rhetoric. It will take imagination, painful decisions-and much money-to reverse the trends. The danger of a recession, coupled with inflation, is the biggest threat of all to the G.O.P...
...This kind of man," says Little, "needs only a slight illness to trigger off a serious neurosis that often lasts for years and is very difficult to cure. The most valuable thing in life-his fitness-has been taken away, and he can't fill the gap." Most of Little's nonathletic patients could take physical illness in stride. Their neuroses had more familiar origins: problems in marriage or work...
Greater Bliss. "What's the fun of hopping into beds for the same eternal routines?" asks Buntaro Nagasaka, manager of the Hotel New Japan in Kobe. "We provide our patrons with something new and exciting in beds to help trigger a greater bliss for them." The most sensational trigger: a double bed that moves slowly upward eight feet into a mirror-covered nook in the ceiling. Another, simpler model features a mirror that drops suddenly to a position only four feet over the bed. Explains Manager Nagasaka: "Shocked and terrified, your partner is bound to grab hold...
...this point a tall man with disheveled hair and a wrinkled shirt came into the room. Betsy explained what I was doing, and the word "abortion" seemed to trigger an explosion in his mind. It was 5:30 in the afternoon, Betsy's contact lenses were bothering her, and frustration poured out of him in a massive harangue...