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Dreamed up by L. Ron Hubbard, a onetime science-fiction writer, Scientology originally surfaced as "Dianetics," a pseudopsychological fad that flourished briefly in America in the early 1950s. Dianetics purported to be a quick way to mental health that could clear the mind of "engrams," the mental quirks that, Hubbard alleged, were the cause of all psychic problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cults: Meddling with Minds | 8/23/1968 | See Source »

High Salvation. Though Hubbard claimed near-miraculous results in ridding man of his neuroses, professional psychologists condemned Dianetics as amateurish and potentially dangerous meddling with serious mental problems. Undismayed, Hubbard in 1952 announced the birth of the Church of Scientology, an "applied religious philosophy" which retained most of the basic features of Dianetics. Incorporation as a church offered several built-in advantages-notably tax exemption...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cults: Meddling with Minds | 8/23/1968 | See Source »

White would-be vigilantes more than match them. The gun-run is naturally heaviest in areas of recent riots. In Michigan, Dearborn's racist Mayor Orville L. Hubbard exhorted townsfolk to "take up arms, learn to shoot and be a dead shot." Close to 500 Dearborn women are taking regular pistol practice; similar distaff firearm courses are under way from Redondo Beach, Calif., to DeKalb County, Georgia, to Dallas, where 1,000 women have completed a pistol program in recent months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE GUN UNDER FIRE | 6/21/1968 | See Source »

...their answer is that these men were doing their jobs--which they were--then we have reached a degree of understanding. If they begin to splutter, then I have gotten my point across. Ruth Hubbard (Mrs. George Wald) Research Associate in Biology

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ...AND THE OTHERS | 2/23/1968 | See Source »

...MESSAGE TO GARCIA, Elbert Hubbard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: ALLTIME BESTSELLERS | 2/2/1968 | See Source »

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