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...sunken continent of Mu...
...merely writing a political pamphlet about an imaginary state. His contemporaries did not take him literally, but during the Middle Ages Plato gained such enormous authority that his political fantasy was accepted as sober fact. An Atlantis cult grew, and still flourishes. The myth has even multiplied, begetting Mu (sunk in the Pacific) and Lemuria (sunk in the Indian Ocean...
...Mu was invented out of whole cloth by James Churchward, who wrote several detailed, popular books about its inhabitants and their alleged "secrets." Lemuria, originally a geologists' land mass that sank 60 million years ago, was appropriated and modernized by Madame Helena P. Blavatsky, founder of the Theosophical Society. She used it as a home for her "Third Race" of apelike, four-armed men who came to a bad end after discovering...
...Mett odists, Philadelphia's 56-year-old Bisho Fred P. Corson, new president of the Metf odist Council of Bishops, puts the emphasi on attracting youth. "The Communist! Fascists and ultra-fundamentalists, like tb Youth for Christ," he said, "all came t power via the youth movement. We mu< face that fact and recognize that they suf plies some sort of inner urge...
...necessary social services," and "the right of every person to social protection in the event of unemployment, sickness, old age or disability." But it explicitly admits that these cannot be effectively guaranteed until the island's agriculture and industry have been more fully developed. This week Governor Luis Muñoz Marín is scheduled to arrive in Washington to appear before congressional hearings on the constitution. Though Puerto Ricans are well aware that Congress has many other matters on its mind this year, they hope for early approval. If they get it their elections in November...