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...bicycles. There were angry words. Then John's father, Lawrence Westberg, went marching over to the home of the boys' father, William Scherrer. Westberg claims he simply shouted, "Goddamn it, Bill, start controlling your kids." Scherrer, on the other hand, swears that Westberg called him a "rotten, f- sonofabitch!" Scherrer called the police, who arrested Westberg. The charge: violating the township's ordinance on disorderly persons, which prohibits, among other things, "indecent, insulting or immoral language in the presence of others...
...Maine town of Dover-Foxcroft (pop. 4,000), Charles MacArthur was standing beside the canal lock that feeds water from the Piscataquis River into the hydroelectric plant of Brown's Mill. He heard a strangely squishy, popping sound. "It was sort of like a baseball bat hitting a rotten stump," he recalls. The bulkhead below the 600-kw generator bulged from hydrostatic pressure and quietly let go. MacArthur (who owns the mill) turned, horrified, to see 100 tons of concrete, studded with steel reinforcing rods, tossed lightly into the springtime air as thousands of gallons of water poured back...
...scientist, returned from America, who enjoys the privileged status of a leading intellectual: a maid, a small apartment of his own, even a refrigerator. But he is forbidden to marry the woman of his choice because of her "bad" class background. In "Chairman Mao Is a Rotten Egg," a young mother is virtually overcome by anxiety because her small child is rumored to have repeated a counterrevolutionary slogan picked up on the street from his playmates. K'uai Shih-fu is a common worker who, irritated because he cannot buy fish at the market, is provoked into a small...
...that I am not used to the daily traumas of war like the other kibbutzniks, and that leaving the kibbutz is not at all an easy decision for me--in part because of attitudes like his. He smiles and decides to let me go; after all, one rotten apple spoils the bunch...
...sure I want to do it again," said Stern, the bandleader. "The water was not too cold, but those eggs were really rotten...