Word: supermen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cult of dianetics, which was going strong a year ago (TIME, July 24, 1950), has some of the features of a new religion. Its founder, 'Science-Fictioneer L. Ron Hubbard, claimed that his "science of the mind" could cure all mental and most bodily ills, make supermen of truly devoted converts. Today, dianetics is suffering the standard fate of the cult: one of its earliest adherents has broken away and is accusing Hubbard of having strayed from the true faith...
...lightweight, .30-cal. T25 rifle is a "new tool" which certainly merits the Army's pride [TIME, Feb. 26]. I trust the Army is saving a few buttons to burst when it finds the supermen to fire the T25 at 750 rounds a minute using a 20-round clip...
...always considered football a part of education, of what the Student Council has called the production of the "whole man." The College needs inter-collegiate sports just as it needs intramural sports and intercollegiate debating. It needs a reasonable proportion of football victories, but it does not need eleven supermen with special privileges...
...Supermen. Bransome, a graduate of Ursinus College (1912), got his start in business as a Philadelphia construction man, took on "any job that came along"-including repairing Delaware River bulkheads between tides. An early aviator (1912), he flew for the Navy in World War I. At 26 he joined General Motors' export division as a trainee, was made head of the division in a year. His reason: "The guys who were teaching me were even dumber than I was." He soon switched to a top post at Wilson Welder & Metals Co., Inc., where he pioneered in the infant electric...
When asked how he put Mack Trucks back on its feet, Bransome calls in his five top men, points to them and says: "There's your answer." He adds: "We're not supermen doing a superman's job, you know. We just apply common sense...