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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Wednesday, May 29, 1985

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 29, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 1985 the stars and stripes a photo escape artist Karl Bartoni and Wendy Stokes Start off their marriage with High the two Are cradled in Flowers As they prepare to say i do at the top of a marriage made in heaven packs English resort City England a several thousand vacationers crammed the seafront of this Northwest England resort monday As a couple got married while hanging from a 500foothigh observation Karl and Wendy stepped onto a Small Cage like platform decorated with Flowers at the top of the Tower and were lowered by steel Cable to the strains of the wedding partway Down the a White Robed choir Sang and the John Cayton performed the ceremony from an observation the in formal wed Ding made their vows while swaying i Felt i was trembling All the the Bride said and the an escape artist who wriggled out of a straitjacket last year while hanging upside Down from the it was definitely not a stunt we will be the ceremony was not legally because the Tower is not licensed As a place for the couple will repeat their vows in Church saturday to make the marriage police said spectators trying to get to the midair wedding on a Gray National Holiday in Britain three mile traffic jams on two approach roads to 23 hours after Hospital Bride Dies of cancer England a sue hoi a 22yearold died of cancer less than one Day after being married in her Hospi Tal friends and relatives said in reports carried tuesday by the British news nurses pushed two Beds together so she and her mailman Mark could spend their wedding night in each others she died the next 23 hours after her wedding and with her Hus band beside Holness was cremated six Days later in her White bridal Tiara and wedding the news reports the couple had a wedding already arranged in their own when Hospital staff realized that sue Fitzgerald had Only hours to she was married to Holness by special License on May 4 in the Chapel of Lukes in South of the Martin who conducted the marriage and the crematorium told a reporter they were an Ordinary and Nice Young couple facing up to a very difficult situation with remarkable they coped with it extremely Susan was very she had Learned eight months ago that an ovarian cyst had been diagnosed As a cancerous she had known her Fiance for eight but they delayed marriage because an office said they must save enough to buy a Home of their Holness told London Sun newspaper sue had come to terms with death and was actually planning and organizing her own funeral on that wedding in a tragic it was the Only future we had to talk she said she wanted to be cremated in her wedding dress and even chose the hymns she wanted us to the 23rd amazing Grace and abide with All the she was comforting Holness giving me the strength to go on without researcher stresses unknowns in report los Angeles a a study showing that Chil Dren in Small families have higher is and Complete More years of schooling than those of Large families should not be used for planning purposes because it ignores important a researcher Robert Zajonc of the University of Michigan said his research shows that the greater the number of children in a family and the Shorter the spacing Between the less their intellectual Zajonc that it would be unwise to base family planning decisions on his i would not advocate any pattern of spacing of Chil Dren because Many other factors Are completely in he the unknowns include the effect of family size on Socia morality and coping he Zajonc said that the surprising nationwide upturn of sat scores beginning in 1980 corresponds closely to the decrease in family size during the 1960s and when children now taking the Scholastic aptitude test were he predicted that scores will continue to climb until the year when the children of today larger families will begin to show another decline in he was one of a panel of researchers who discussed their research monday at the annual meeting of the american association for the advancement of Judith Blake of the University of California in los Angeles used data on children to show that the smaller the the More years of schooling the Chil Dren will the advantages of coming from a Small family Are Gigantic by that i mean two or three Chil she her research clearly shows a difference Between families of two or three children and families of six or eight she it does not As clearly for whether having two children might be better than having Blake said she had Analysed her data in a Way that showed that differences in income Between Large and Small families or the higher Cost of educating More children were not she the negative effect on children in Large families occurs in Grade not in High school and when the average family resources might be More James of Michigan state disagreed somewhat with those arguing that the parents of Large families tend to have Low and that therefore the childrens is Are merely a reflection of their parents a matter of heredity and Are not related to the size of their the researchers also disagreed Over the prospects for children with no Blake found that an Only child had an advantage Over children in a two child Zajonc found the the he is that the Only child has no younger sibling to come to him for something that can boost a Childs this child is deprived of the Chance to serve As an intellectual Zajonc he also said that the dependence of education and in on family size does not mean schooling is the Rise and fall of sat scores May follow the curve of family but How much they Rise and fall depends on How much better we educate our he there Are Many factors which affect the this is one that can be Zajonc said a commission appointed by president Jimmy Carter had found no fewer than 79 possible explanations for what was then a Long decline in sat now that the trend is a number of people and organizations Are ready to take credit notably president Zajonc  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