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...Doors are never locked. There are no bars on the windows and virtually no rules. Spankings and scoldings are forbidden. Bedrooms burst with toys and stuffed animals. A soda fountain and an unlocked cupboard brimming with cookies and candy await any child with a nagging thirst and a sweet tooth. Outside in the grassy courtyard, a concrete nude "supermother"-twice life-size-sprawls on the grass. "She takes a lot of abuse," says Bettelheim. "The children stomp on her, curl up in her arms, paint her breasts, endlessly scrub and sometimes kick her. They soon learn that the kicking hurts...
Inevitably, the blame centered on Wehner. Last March, outside the hall in Nürnberg where the Socialists were holding their convention, a mob of young party dissidents attacked Wehner, loosening a tooth and knocking off his glasses. Since then, hecklers have hounded him at nearly every speech with cries of "Labor traitor" and "Fascist." Erupting in fierce outbursts, Wehner has replied in kind, calling his detractors "Communists," and warning that their leftist attacks against the party's moderate policies would only encourage the growth of the new rightist extremists. "As you bellow into the German forest," he declared...
...anonymity. He was Dr. B. H. McKeeby, and he was a Cedar Rapids, Iowa, dentist. It is a local Cedar Rapids legend-this being a case where the legend may be the truth-that Grant Wood picked Dr. McKeeby as a model while McKeeby was filling Grant's tooth...
...team last week was busily imitating McCarthy tactics by dispatching scores of student volunteers to canvass at least 200,000 Democratic households. In Indiana, Bobby's admirers had become dangerously demonstrative. Jostled by crowds in Mishawaka, he banged his upper lip on a car, chipping a front tooth...
...have heard, 'an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.' Ye have heard it said, 'sideswipe for sideswipe, right-of-way refused for right-of-way refused.' But I say unto you, 'Turn the other fender.' If someone gets in your way at a green light, let him be first at the next light. And whosoever shall try to pass thee imprudently with a less powerful car, slow down to let him do it more easily. I say unto you, love your enemies, love those who drive dangerously. They are in peril...