Word: dropouts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bedded down in churches and private homes, get free medical attention at Cambridgeport Clinic and legal aid from volunteer lawyers. To keep the hippies busy, Parks Commissioner John Warner has supplied tools to clear 25 debris-cluttered city lots. Self-styled Hippie Agronomist John MacConnell, 30, a Syracuse University dropout, plans to plant corn in the lots because he thinks that "everyone should have a chance to eat sweet corn out of a garden...
...girl, Doris Mae Winter, is a social dropout too ("her formal education had come to an end when she slugged a history teacher for giving her a failing mark") and is frigid to boot. Romance, naturally, blossoms. She becomes Leonard's partner in a Bonnie sexual union-successful for him, enjoyable for her-before he comes to his Clyde...
...McLuhan's Dewline. Says the Canadian scholar-turned-guru: "It's going to be a distant-early-warning system to give advance notice to anyone who'll listen." Planned articles: "Love Thy Label as Thyself," "The End of the Muddle Class," and "The Executive as a Dropout." Should some disciples worry that McLuhan might label himself an ordinary editor, he plans to mix his printed material with occasional recordings called, punnily enough, "plattertudes...
Died. Lino Zanussi, 48, pioneer producer of Italy's modern home appliances; of injuries suffered in a plane crash; near San Sebastián, Spain. A high school dropout who took over his father's small stove business in 1946, Zanussi began expanding into other consumer lines, perceived the tastes and sales rhythm of Italians keenly enough to anticipate the postwar surge. Today, everything from refrigerators to TV sets emerges from the family-owned Industrie A. Zanussi, with an annual sales total of more than $100 million...
Other Hatreds. Kennedy was not shot by a white racist angry with his defense of the Negro, or a Negro militant incensed with his white liberalism, or a high-school dropout like Lee Harvey Oswald who felt himself rejected by a capitalist society. The man charged with his murder is a virulent Arab nationalist, whose hatreds stem from the land where he spent the early part of his life, and where political assassination is commonplace and violence as accepted as the desert wind...