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...with members of the Process, many people suspect that the Church is an organization of Satanists. The fact that Satan and Lucifer are two of the "three great gods" of the Processean universe helps people to confirm that suspicion. Aside from their belief in recognizing the qualities that they assign to these two gods, and aside from their use of the Satanic goat of Mendes in their Church symbolism, there is hardly anything suggested in the activities of the Process to link them with the much publicized Satanic cults. If anything, they suggest the opposite; scrupulously polite and gentle with...
...doomsday scenario, then, would have the Russian trailer getting in just one shot at the 1,000-ft. carrier, presumably not enough to knock it out, before the 450-ft. trailer is attacked by the 164-ft. U.S. patrol craft and must defend itself. The Russians could, of course, assign a smaller boat to trail the U.S. trailer. Eventually a long line of vessels of diminishing size would string out over the Mediterranean. Each would wheel to fire its heavier weapons at the less lethal boat astern. The final casualty might well be a lone U.S. Navy...
...arrive at his scoring system, Dr. Holmes assigned an arbitrary value of 50 to the act of getting married and then asked people in several countries to rank other changes in relation to marriage. For example, a person who thought that pregnancy represented a greater change than marriage was to assign to pregnancy a number higher than 50. To correlate change and health, Holmes kept a watch on 80 Seattle residents for two years and then compared their personal-change histories with their physical and mental ailments...
...indirect effort to blunt school integration, California, like many states and communities, had passed a law that banned busing of children without a parent's consent. With equal indirection, the California court upheld the busing consent regulation -but warned that school boards may, without parental agreement, still assign children to distant schools in order to achieve integration. Thus a child is no longer required to take the school bus in California. He is merely required to attend the school to which he is assigned...
...Cambridge School Committee has decided not to assign police patrols to Cambridge High and Latin School when students return to classes Monday...