CONTEMPORARY NONSENSE
McLUHAN PREDICTS DEPRESSION BY 1972
Dr. Marshall McLuhan, the communications theorist, pre–
dicted yesterday that the United States will have an economic depres–
sion in about five years because its youth lacks direction.
Speaking at the second annual seminar of TV Stations, Inc., at
the New York Hilton Hotel, Dr. McLuhan told programming and man–
agement executives that the "turned-on generation, the swingers" are
in a "slump of human drive and ambition." "This is all that is neces–
sary to cause a depression," he said....
Earlier at the meeting Walter D. Scott, Chairman of the National
Broadcasting Company, predicted that annual advertising expenditures
on television would rise to $6.5-billion over the next 10 years. Advertising
expenditures are now about $2-billion a year.
(New York Times,
September 29, 1967).
WISCONSIN AIDE APOLOGIZES FOR CALLING OFFICIALS
STUPID
MADISON, WIS.
(UPI) -Grant Miller, Assistant State Insurance Com–
missioner, apologized to the State Senate for calling its members "stupid
political hacks."
"It is distressing to me," he said in a letter, "that some choose to
regard my remarks as a personal attack on them when such was not my
intent. ..."
(New York Times,
August 26, 1967). Contributed by Lucy Mindel,
Waban, Massachusetts.
JUDGE IN FBI CASE SUGGESTS A GI RIGHTS TO NECK
WASHINGTON,
Sept. 20 - A Federal judge suggested today that a young
man who became accustomed to necking and petting while in the mili–
tary might have a legal right to continue for a while after he re–
turned to civilian life. . . . Furthermore, the judge said, the veteran's
right to neck might even apply
if
he became an employee of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation. . . . The Court is considering whether
J.
Edgar
Hoover . . . acted legally in dismissing a bachelor clerk who had kept
a girl overnight in his apartment. . . . The clerk, Thomas H. Carter, 26
