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Show Man, 127, Weds Wife No. 7 To celebrate his one hundred twenty-seventh birthday Hassan, a peasant living near Eigha, in the Dardanelles Straits, married for the seventh time. His bride is only thirty-seven. Hassan declares that a man is never too old to marry. Enjoying perfect health, a good appetite ap-petite and the use of a new set of natural teeth, which first started to grow 10 years ago, he does not look older than seventy. He walks several times a week from his village vil-lage to the neighboring town of Bigha to buy his groceries. Hassan Has-san hopes to live at least another 20 years and attributes his fitness to his life in th; open and his total a ostentation from liquor and tobacco. |