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...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...
Pablum & Tranquilizers. Bobby rapidly developed his own style, blending hard proposals, double-edged wit and a tough platform manner. The Johnson dropout deprived him of his prime target, but Hubert Humphrey soon provided another. Kennedy seized on H.H.H.'s "politics of joy" slogan to offer his own contrast: "If you want to be filled with Pablum and tranquilizers," he said in Detroit's John F. Kennedy Square last week, "then you should vote for some other candidate." Again: "Let's not have tired answers. If you see a small black child starving to death in the Mississippi Delta...
...even more startling decline in seminary enrollment, which the cardinals rather gratuitously attributed to today's "atmosphere of materialism and naturalism." In the past decade, 45 French dioceses have had to close down their major seminaries for lack of applicants, and even in strongly Catholic Spain the dropout rate among candidates to the priesthood is nearly 50%. U.S. seminary enrollment last year fell by 5,541-more than twice the decline...