Time is on their side: five couples toast half a century of marriage

You have to be best friends, says Elinor Kaushansky. That comes first. And if your union is to be a long and happy one, as her half-century marriage to Sid has been, you can’t take each other for granted.
There must be mutual respect, says Reva Fleischer. It “covers everything.” In March she and her husband, Allan, marked their 49th anniversary.
Esther and Mark Dichter in March 1968. To celebrate their 50th anniversary, they returned to England, where they had honeymooned. They