Word: hubbardism
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...mild resemblance to Buchmanite confession. It purports to cleanse the mind of previous harmful influences, thus vastly increasing its powers and efficiency, by making the individual relive former painful experiences to "discharge" their evil power. According to dianetics' discoverer, L. (for Lafayette) Ron (for Ronald) Hubbard: "The hidden source of all psychosomatic ills and human aberration has been discovered and skills have been developed for their invariable cure." Sample ills: arthritis, allergies, asthma, some coronary difficulties, eye trouble, ulcers, migraine headaches, sex deviations...
...four years ago, seven-year-old Jacqueline Hubbard and her brother got off a clearly marked school bus and began to walk across the highway. Jacqueline stepped into the path of a big van, which killed her. Last week the New Hampshire Supreme Court, in ruling on a death claim by Jacqueline's family, was faced with an unanswerable question: How much is a human life worth...
...Hampshire jury had placed the value of young Jacqueline Hubbard's life at $7,000; the van company had appealed the verdict as excessive. Last week New Hampshire's Supreme Court considered the speculative evidence. Jacqueline, the court pointed out, had a life expectancy of 50.8 years; had she lived, she would certainly have earned, either directly as a worker or indirectly as a housewife, at least $7,000. Ruled the court: "It cannot be said . . . that the amount of verdict is excessive...
...disturbed by his constant defeats. Says he: "I hate all forms of exercise." He has little interest in anything not connected with building, seldom reads anything but the newspapers and magazines. To visitors in his office Bill Levitt likes to hand out copies of his favorite book, Elbert Hubbard's Message to Garcia...
...Aaron '50, Combs, Preston Craig '50, Nutt, Charles Lee 3rd '50, Tobias, Paul Henry '51. This also gives Combs a Major H in Minor Colors. '53 Batting and Fielding Averages (participants in six games or more) Player G AB R H HR Pct. RBI SB PO A E Pct. Hubbard 7 13 7 5 0 .385 1 2 42 2 1 .978 Canepa 12 50 15 19 1 .380 8 9 32 29 3 .953 Smith 12 43 15 14 0 .349 10 5 18 3 2 .913 O'Connor...