Word: suede
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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In 1972, Johnson sued the ETS for damages to her reputation. The suit is still pending in federal court in Boston.
The purchaser, it turned out, was the rich, mysterious Church of Scientology, an international cult that for two decades has specialized in a unique form of psychological counseling, often against hysterical opposition. Scientology, in turn, has tended toward defensiveness bordering on paranoia, filing scores of libel suits on the slightest...
Hubbard and his wife had moved to England when, in 1968, Britain banned foreign Scientologists, largely because of the rising number of complaints about Scientology. Among the most questionable practices reported in various countries: the recording of confessions that made members susceptible to blackmail; "disconnect" orders requiring the devout to...
Chambers, a recanted Communist and an admitted former member of a Soviet spy ring, publicly identified Hiss in 1948 as the State Department official who had passed documents to him in 1937 and 1938. Hiss admitted knowing Chambers only after an obscure Congressman, Richard Nixon, brought them face to face...
Who Understood? Then, once this present disorder has been worked through, the owners proposed that all future contracts have a "seven and one" clause that would allow seven-year veterans to demand they be traded or permitted to enter the free-agent pool following the option year. "The nice thing...