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When??I think about??happiness, it is not an image I see, though I know the ads that show perfectly matched children hugging their toys or an impeccable couple strolling on the beach at an exclusive resort or a silver-haired pair holding hands beside a golf cart.
For any species hoping to survive in the wild, the lifetime to-do list is agreeably brief: eat, mate, defend your turf and above all, protect your young.
Among the phenomena of the 1950s was the rise of the violent urban gangs with their freewheeling, sometimes lethal “rumbles” in protection of their “turf.” By the mid-'60s, gangs seemed to be on the wane, their vital energies either drawn into the protest movements of that era or sapped by the burgeoning drug culture.
“Things have gotten a bit hairy,” admitted British Lieut.