Word: religion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trying to get rid of Sherman Holcombe, but there will always be others to take our places. The voices of workers on campus are getting louder. Some day all employees at Harvard will stand together united, regardless of which union we belong to, regardless of our race, sex, religion or nationality. It will be a day of reckoning for Harvard, because the University will have to recognize that democratic rights are not just for a privileged minority...
...Scientology, in turn, has tended toward defensiveness bordering on paranoia, filing scores of libel suits on the slightest provocation. In February, the Church of Scientology sued Mayor Cazares, then threatened the Clearwater Sun, the St. Petersburg Times and radio station WDCL. "We are not a turn-the-other-cheek religion," Spokesman Arthur Maren told TIME Correspondent David Beckwith...
...science-fiction writer. In 1949, he seemed to predict his own future in a jocular speech to a convention of fellow authors: "Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wanted to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion...
Dianetics, retooled as the religion of Scientology, has since developed most of the accouterments of other faiths-liturgies, clerical collars, but only the vaguest sort of theology. Unconvinced that it was indeed a religion and noting that Hubbard received 10% of all revenues, the Internal Revenue Service in 1959 got the courts to deny Scientology a tax exemption. Later, however, Scientology beat an ill-conceived medical fraud case against E-meters by the Food and Drug Administration, and has won limited recognition as a religion...
...court's action was hailed by civil rights groups as a move that strengthens Title 7 of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination in employment because of race, religion or sex. Specifically, the ruling came in response to a petition on behalf of black applicants for long-haul truck-driver jobs with Bowman Transportation Inc. in Atlanta, which until 1970 openly followed a policy of hiring whites only. The majority opinion, written by Justice William J. Brennan, asserted that if the court merely awarded a job to an applicant who was initially discriminated against, he "will never...