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King dubs this inflammatory forte "pyrokinesis," a combination of the Greek words meaning fire and movement. Blond, pigtailed, eight-year-old Charlie McGee is so hyperpyrokinetic (she can project 30,000°) that she is judged capable of melting whole cities and "eventually creating a nuclear explosion simply by the force of her will...
...both college students at the time, had volunteered to be injected with a powerful new hypnotic-hallucinogenic drug that is euphemistically known as Lot Six and is called dilysergic triune acid, obviously a by-blow of LSD. Vicky, the mother, develops telekinetic ability, manipulating objects without physical contact. Andy McGee comes off the couch with the power to dominate and direct -"push," in King's word-other people's minds. The drug has changed both parents' chromosomal structure; it is this mutation, not convincingly explained by King, that has produced Charlie's pyrokinesis...
...Baltimore pizza parlor, a patrolman shoots and cripples JaWan McGee, a black youth, after seeing him reach for a shiny object in his pocket. It turns out to be a cigarette lighter. In Flint, Mich., an unarmed teen-ager fleeing a burglary is shot in the back by a policeman with a shotgun. In Chicago, three plainclothesmen severely beat a former mental patient who refuses to stop smoking in a subway car and resists arrest. Five hours later, he is dead. In Philadelphia, a 94-year-old black man who refuses to let utility company representatives into his apartment...
...them against each other" as they were walking away from the dance. When one of the students went to call the police, Francis pushed the other against a wall. After he was questioned by the Harvard Police and then released, he proceeded inside Phillips Brooks House and pushed Lowell McGee, as reported in The Crimson. Yet the article was silent about the two earlier assaults...
...Lowell McGee reported that he "ran upstairs and asked the PBH janitor to call the police" only after dodging a man who entered the building with John Francis and who attempted to block McGee's forward progress. The Crimson neglected to mention this latter incident...