Word: converted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first arrives on board the Vance in January 1966, he is met by an uncertain crew that held no love for its previous commander but respected his judgment. Arnheiter seems harmless enough, but then he embarks on a series of inexplicable move which gradually convince the crew--and slowly convert the officers to a similar view--that he is really quite mad. Arnheiter spends $950 of the crew's recreation fund to buy a speedboat which, he says, will help to engage Vietcong gunboats by serving as a decoy. He has shark's teeth painted...
...said, fantasizing freely, "is seriously concerned about the rising adult male delinquency rate, especially among retired Defense Department officials and Pentagon generals. The President is thinking about instituting some play-therapy groups, in which they could work out their aggressive feelings. Anti-machismo Secretary Gloria Steinem proposed that we convert the Pentagon into housing for the elderly and play centers." Later, Congresswoman Abzug reported in her dream of the future, she "returned to Capitol Hill, where we're still deadlocked on the bill proposing amnesty for Henry Kissinger...
While Bangladesh approached Commonwealth status, Pakistan was quitting it. Then Bhutto flew to Peking, where the Chinese agreed to convert $110 million in loans to Pakistan into grants and to defer payment of a $200 million loan made last year...
...early convert to the menswear fad was Actress Betsy von Furstenberg, now touring the provinces in The Gingerbread Lady, who bought a boy's outfit for herself last fall when she was shopping for her prep-school son. "She's an incredibly feminine woman," says Allen Murphy, an ad man and a longtime friend. "She usually looks best in a pouf of chiffon, but she really looks terrific in boys' clothes...
While there seems to be no hard evidence of kidnaping, drugging or genuine hypnotism so far, a broader charge of "brainwashing" may be closer to the truth, at least in the sense of relentless exposure to the sect's propaganda. At special communes for "babes" (new converts), the apprentice memorizes the requisite Bible passages by reading them aloud while simultaneously listening to them on tape. Bible texts also blare from loudspeakers all day long. Each new convert takes a biblical name, usually from the Old Testament (Caleb, Shadrach, Deborah), and drops his old name as a remnant...