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...great U.S. public, which had so happily sponsored perpetual motion, Couéism, beauty mud, monkey glands and the double-knobbed electric revitalizer (with storage batteries), was off again. It has developed a fevered interest in almost anything that promises to forestall atomic disintegration. Last week the Civil Defense Administration was having about as much trouble with pamphleteers and crackpot inventors as with the problems of preparing for the Big Bang...
...Prepare for War. This was not isolationism, Taft said, nor was that the label for Hoover's doctrine of Gibraltar-ism (TIME, Jan. 1). "It seems to me that our battle against Communism is in fact a worldwide battle and must be fought on the world stage . . . [but] our first consideration must be defense of America." Here is how he would wage the battle...
...enough to call Perón a Caudillo, Big Brother, Duce or Führer; these terms have a worldly connotation, and since he has achieved heavenly status without the necessity of dying, it is better to dub him saint. But in another sense, Saint-Peron-ism is the political version of Superman. Even as the followers of Superman trust in his extraordinary talents, so do the shirtless worshipers of Saint Perón believe in his special powers-divine, atomic...
...many ways, dianetics-("the science of mind") is the poor man's psychoanalysis; it has a touch of Couéism and a 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...
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