Word: myron
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...obtain the Cardinal Gushing Villa, a 30-room retreat house, from the Daughters of Mary of the Immaculate Conception, a Connecticut-based order of nuns. The sisters were known to have been opposed to dealing with the Moonies. They sold the property for $1 million to New Hampshire Businessman Myron Block, who turned out to be in cahoots with the Unification Church. The next day, Block sold the retreat to the Moonies for $1,127,000. In addition, just two weeks ago, a Moonie-run firm paid $650,000 to buy a marina and Bob's Clam Shack...
Says Professor J. Myron Atkin, dean of Stanford University's School of Education: "For the first time, it is conceivable to envision the dismantling of universal, public, compulsory education as it has been pioneered in America...