Word: hubbards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...child learning his nursery rhymes, Old Mother Hubbard would go like this: "The old dame piked for the chigrel nook/ For gorms for her ball belljeemer;/ The gorms had shied, the nook was strung,/ And the ball belljeemer had neemer."* Then there were the code names for nonch (not-nice) subjects. To go to bed with a girl was to burlap her, because one day in the 1890s someone walked into the general store, found no clerk, checked the storeroom and found him making love to a young lady on a pile of sacks. The word caught on, although...
...deceased inductees are headed by All-American football players Edward Casey '10 and Charles Hubbard '24; Malcolm Whitman '99, standout on the first Davis Cup team and three-time national tennis champ; Edward Gourdin '21, former world record holder in the broad jump; Palmer Dixon '25, two-time national squash champ and Varsity Club President from 1963-1966; Robert Emmons '21, baseball and hockey star; tennis champs Bob Wrenn '95 and Richard Williams '16, runner John Watters '26; hockey goalie Jabish Holmes '21; and Charles Clark '20, another star of the 1920 Rose Bowlers...
...liberation; in addition to lectures on the glories of Scientology, initiates must answer a long series of questions, often highly personal, while clutching two tin cans wired to an "E-meter," an electrical gadget reputed to be also capable of communicating with inanimate objects (in one such experiment Hubbard was in touch with tomatoes). By watching the fluctuations of a needle, Scientologist "auditors" can supposedly discern when a student has become "clear" and has attained "total awareness and freedom.'' Students attempting to drop out before becoming "clear" have been subjected to hard-sell pitches advising them...
Blue Crew. Scientology today has 22 headquarters in six countries and claims to have a membership in the thousands. In the U.S., where it operates ten "churches," it seems to have a strong appeal for hippies. Though Hubbard "retired" two years ago, when he sold the good will of his name to the movement for $240,000, he keeps in touch by Telex with international headquarters in Britain...
Public attention usually does Scientology more harm than good. In Australia, a 1965 government inquiry branded Hubbard a "fraud" and Scientology "evil, fantastic and impossible, its principles perverted and ill-founded, its techniques debased and harmful." In 1963, the U.S. Federal Drug Administration raided the cult's church in Washington, D.C., and seized all its E-meters on the grounds that Scientology falsely promised the cure of "neuroses, psychoses, schizophrenia and all psychosomatic illnesses." Last week the British Home Office announced that 800 Scientologists planning to arrive in England this week for their international congress will not be allowed...