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...almost deserted Houston Intercontinental Airport. Inside the terminal, Stanley Hubbard, 34, was routinely checking in a dozen sleepy-eyed passengers for an Eastern Airlines flight to Atlanta. Suddenly the four men at the end of the line snapped menacingly to life. They rushed past Hubbard toward the entrance of the 727 jet. Instinctively Hubbard pursued them. Five shots rang out, and Hubbard slumped to the floor dead, clutching the raincoat that he had grabbed from one of his assailants. Beneath the plane, an Eastern refueler, Wyatt Wilkinson, 26, was startled to hear the roar of the engines ahead of schedule...
...That poor Houston ticket clerk never had a chance," Dallas Psychiatrist David Hubbard said last week. "He defied the first rule in dealing with a paranoiac-never crowd him or move at him suddenly-and got an instant, deadly education...
...Hubbard was talking about Airline Agent Stanley Hubbard,* who was killed last week attempting to stop four armed skyjackers from boarding an Eastern Airlines jet (see THE NATION). If airline employees and passengers -and Government agencies, too-are properly educated about skyjackers. Psychiatrist Hubbard believes, tragedies like the one in Houston can be avoided. Skyjackers, says Hubbard, are not normal men who can be dealt with as if they were ordinary criminals; in most cases they are paranoid, suicidal schizophrenics to whom the threat of death is not a deterrent but a stimulus to crime. Thus Hubbard believes that...
...Liberal seminaries are suffering," says Fuller President David A. Hubbard, "because of the failure of the congregations they are closest to in motivating men for the ministry." Indeed, candidates who do enter the more liberal seminaries sometimes find it the final test of their faith. A recent survey of 32 U.S. divinity schools by the Lilly Endowment showed that many students encountered a "steady barrage of debunking and skepticism" rather than a bolstering of their beliefs...
...Huff. Denied the possibility of throwing a wrench in the Republicans' clockwork organization by blocking all entrances to the hall, the demonstrators milled about in the streets, slashing tires, abusing more arriving delegates and breaking a few windows. Al Hubbard, a V.V.A.W. leader, walked off in a huff. "If trashing is the thing, if assaulting delegates is the thing, then we will have no part of it." The Miami Beach, county and state police forces who cracked scarcely a skull all the long week in a masterly display of restraint and cool, finally drove the protesters from the convention...