Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many modern religions can claim the distinction of being denounced by a major European government as "socially harmful ... a potential menace to the personality" and "a serious danger to health." Yet those were the words chosen by Britain's Health Minister Kenneth Robinson when he took the floor of the Commons last month to censure the little-known and less understood Church of Scientology...
...white administrators did not bother to consult or even notify Dr. Cordice. They simply announced that two of their brethren were taking over the thoracic and vascular divisions, but Dr. Cordice was told that he could stay on the staff if he chose. He did not so choose. Colleagues claim that he was sacked simply because he was not a member of the club...
...issue was the Philippines' claim to the Malaysian state of Sabah. The dispute is one of the more complicated quarrels on the international scene, but is not without a certain fascination of its own. The plot goes something like this; Sabah is a 29,000-sq.-mi. chunk of Borneo, rich in timber, rubber, tobacco and untapped mineral wealth. It is located in the Sulu Sea only 20 miles from the southernmost Philippine Islands. Once a haunt of Moro pirates, Sabah was signed over in perpetuity to the British in 1878 by its ruler, the Sultan of Sulu...
...unveil his talent? "That would require a lot more exposure of himself," says Actress Polly Bergen. "And he's not sure that he likes what's inside him, which is a shame." Not to Mitchum. Rich, languid, self-hating, self-loving, he can make a claim shared by only a handful of Hollywood veterans. In a town where fashions in faces change with the tides, he has survived. For Mitchum, that seems to be enough...
...Nigerians claim they shot the plane down--McGuire believes it crashed of natural causes, one might say--but one thing is sure; it was demolished. "The tail, that's the only thing you can see, sticking up in the jungle." Aboard were Augie Martin, a black American pilot earning a little extra money while on vacation from Seaboard World Airlines; Martin's wife Gladys, whom McGuire thinks had come along to gather material for an article on Biafra; Jess Meade, also an American: and a Rhoedesian with the pseudonym of "Bill Brown." Mr. Martin's head was never found, McGuire...