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...beyond the restraints of my own capabilities certain facets of the work in which I had been engaged. He is, indeed, all that you have said that he is. We all hope that his chemotherapy and radiation treatment will bring about a remission of his ailment, even a complete cure. Your article is a magnificent testimony to a great man. Francis W. Cleaves Professor of Far Eastern Languages, Emeritus
...Hubbard a World War II hero who miraculously cured himself of nearly fatal combat wounds, as he claimed. Hubbard never saw combat. After his discharge from the Navy in 1946, he was granted 40% disability pay for arthritis, bursitis and conjunctivitis. He continued to collect this pay long after he claimed to have discovered the secret of how to cure such ailments...
Hubbard's followers paid up to $40,000 to take Scientology courses that the church claimed could cure almost any physical or mental ailment. Some people spent hundreds of thousands in all. Says an IRS attorney who interviewed hundreds of members: "Many of them sincerely believed that Scientology helped their lives and made them better people." In the past the movement has attracted such celebrities as Hollywood's John Travolta and Television Sportscaster John Brodie, former star quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers...
...Americans now favor capital punishment, up from just 42% in 1966. "People are frightened and upset about crime in the streets," says William Bailey, a Cleveland State University sociologist. "Nothing seems to be done to solve the problem, so the feeling grows that if we can't cure murderers, something we can do is kill them." Jim Jablonski, 44, a Chicago steelworker, speaks for a lot of furious citizens. "Murderers got to pay," he says. For him the next sentence follows self-evidently: "I say, fry the bastards...
Such contingency plans will do nothing, of course, to cure the fundamental ills of the world economy. Said De Vries: "We cannot solve the enormous debt problem until there is a robust recovery in the major industrial countries." The U.S., all TIME's economists agreed, will have to lead the way. -By Charles P. Alexander