Word: cults
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aspirants, far from a beauty-queen type. Tall and girl-next-door pretty, she is a pale brunette who in no way resembles the blonde, golden-bronzed California beauties of imagination. Says a friend: "She'd look ridiculous beside a surfboard." She hates makeup and the whole virginal cult of the body beautiful that underlies Miss America...
...three-story brick house in Philadelphia, "Surrender immediately," demanded an officer through a bullhorn. The shouted reply: "You'll have to bring us out dead." The speaker was Chuckie Africa, a spokesman for the house's residents, all members of MOVE, a radical back-to-nature cult that had staved off eviction for 15 months (TIME...
...cult members were taken to jail and charged with murder. The children were washed, deloused and turned over to city welfare agencies. The house was leveled to the ground by a wrecking crew...
Free of all personality cult, he should be open in kindness and simplicity to the needs of others...
...weighed an intimidating 300 lbs., wore his dark hair in a long pigtail and maintained that he was in fact the Holy Ghost, Jesus Christ and God. Excommunicated by the Mormon Church, he began calling himself Immanuel David and became the leader of a religious cult consisting of about 20 friends, his Swedish-born wife Rachel and their seven children. Eighteen months ago, the family moved from Duchesne, Utah, to Salt Lake City, where they eventually settled in a $95-a-day, three-room suite at the International Dunes Hotel. They kept to themselves, eating their meals-sometimes ordered from...