CONTEMPORARY NONSENSE
"EXPECTANT MOTHERS TRAINED"
"Taylor said the time has come for police 'to study and apply
so far as possible all the factors that will in any way promote better under–
standing and a better relationship between citizens and the law enforce–
ment officer, even if it means attempting to enter into the learning and
cultural realms of unborn children.' "
(St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
August 11, 1968.) Contributed by Miss
Elizabeth Hadas, St. Louis, Missouri.
"When asked, 'Are you for, or against, the intervention of the United
States in Vietnam,' Marshall McLuhan replied, 'The answer to the
first question depends upon how we recognize the role of the war in
Westernizing the Orient. As a crash program of Westernization and edu–
cation, the war consists in initiating the East in the mechanical tech–
nology of the industrial age. All would change if we were to use the
technology of this century. In short, the answer to the first question in
terms of war as an educational program suggests an area of discussion
that has not been tapped. Perhaps any technological gap tends to be
a major cause of war, even as it tends to be liquidated by education.
"'Do we not tend to regard war as conducted by means of the
older technology as relatively endurable? What light does this throw on
our own uses of the latest technology in relation to education?'"
(Authors Take Sides on Vietnam,
Ed. by Cecil Woolf
&
John Bagguley:
New York, Simon and Schuster, 1967.) Contributed by Rogers Albritton,
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
"LAIRD CHOOSES 3 TO HEAD SERVICES"
"[Mr. Packard] would forgo the more than $700,000 a year dividends
from the stock, together with $150,000 or so in salary and bonuses
from the company.
"More than one-third of Hewlett-Packard's business is defense–
related.
"When reporters raised questions today about the propriety of the