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...unlike Kurt Sumpf, many of Köppern's citizens were not willing to forget the bad old days. At school, Sumpf's ten-year-old son Peter was regularly greeted with the jeering chorus: "Jew-pig, Jew-pig." One evening soon after Sumpf's arrival, a gang of toughs led by the son of a former Nazi bigwig stalked into the café proclaiming that Sumpf "should have been gassed 20 years ago," spent a drunken half-hour smashing beer glasses against the wall. They returned two weeks later and began to smash...
Died. Sir Archibald Mclndoe, 59, British plastic surgeon who gave hundreds of burned, maimed R.A.F. and Allied pilots new faces, limbs and lives; in his sleep; in London. In appreciation of his wartime skills, some 600 of Mclndoe's "reconverted" pilots formed an alumni group called "The Guinea Pig Club." Its anthem: "We are Mclndoe's army,/We are his guinea pigs:/With dermatomes and pedicles/Glass eyes, false teeth and wigs...
Abell was willing to catalogue municipal flaws ("Anybody in want of a dead pig can find one in Calvert Street"), but he largely ignored politicians as low types ranking somewhat beneath Baltimore's criminal element...
...bright high school seniors from every state in the Union, Jerry walked off with the top $7,500 award in the annual Westinghouse Science Talent Search. His winning project: an ion accelerator made of such handy items as a Christmas-tree ornament and a float from a pig watering trough...
...bewilderingly obscure to uninitiated spectators. In Cunningham's world, disembodied arms may project from behind curtains to serve as coat racks, the dancers may suddenly suspend all motion to stand fiercely washing their hands, the hero, dressed in a multi-colored coat, may roll about grunting like a pig or baying like a hound...