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...that Percy takes his projections with agreeable lightness. In Love in the Ruins, the population is split into small enclaves of like-minded dissidents: blacks v. whites, knotheads (conservatives) v. liberals. Even the Catholic Church has become a trinity of antagonistic sects. Because no one wants to be a repairman, everything has broken down. Superhighways and shopping centers are enjoying a true "greening"; they are overgrown with weeds...
Rubber Chicken. A social clique formed around the jury's foreman, Herman Tubick, 58, an undertaker. Dubbed "Herman's kids," the group included Jean Roseland; Larry Sheely, 25, a telephone repairman; Anlee Sisto, 48, a school-district electronics technician; Bob Douglass, 35, an alternate juror; and Mrs. Hines, nicknamed "Giggle-bottom" because of her enthusiastic response to gags...
From his gypsy forebears, John Miller inherited an idiosyncratic custom. For four generations, the Millers have carefully guarded a small green leather pouch containing coins and a knotted red cloth, that was said to keep ill fortune from the family as long as it remained unopened. Miller, a boiler repairman in Tempe, Ariz., protected himself by storing the pouch in a safe deposit box in the vaults of the Tempe branch of the First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Phoenix...
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That was the hour when a General Motors tool repairman named Francis Cronk accepted a collect call from the Traverse City state hospital for mental patients. His mentally retarded son, John David Cronk, 26, had died. The hospital autopsy claimed ''acute pulmonary congestion." Dismayed, the Cronks ordered another autopsy by a private pathologist, Dr. Charles E. Black. His report was startling: death had resulted from severe chest and abdominal injuries, including contusions of the lungs, stomach and diaphragm, apparently caused by beatings. Three weeks later, Weekender published its own account of Cronk's death as well...