Word: waco
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Representatives passed a resolution last week praising one Albert DeSalvo for "noted activities and unconventional techniques involving population control and applied psychology," which had made him "an acknowledged leader in his field." It also applauded his "dedicated devotion to his work." Introduced by Representative Tom Moore Jr. of Waco to demonstrate how thoughtlessly state legislators often vote on obscure and special bills, the resolution honored a man now serving a life sentence for armed robbery and assault-and more commonly known as the self-proclaimed "Boston Strangler...
...those interested in making it in the more traditional sense, the Success Motivation Institute of Waco, Texas (dedicated to "motivating people to their full potential") offers cassette lectures on the dynamics of supervision, sales training and becoming financially independent. There is also a three-part family program, covering such topics as "Handling Frustration and Conflict," "What It Means to Become a Woman" and "Keep Your Eye On Your Attitudes." Among SMI's customers are several members of the Kansas City Chiefs-after winning the 1970 Super Bowl, the Chiefs failed to make the playoffs in the season just ended...
...huge Protestant evangelical market, however, is flourishing. Word, Inc., a record-and-book publishing firm in Waco, Texas, has produced a pair of phenomenal bestsellers on spiritual group dynamics by an Episcopalian oilman named Keith Miller (TIME, Sept. 19). Together they have sold some 700,000 hardback copies. Other evangelical bestsellers stress personal experience. David Wilkerson's The Cross and the Switchblade, for instance, tells of Wilkerson's life as a street minister amid New York City's gangs, and has sold more than 6,000,000 copies, mostly in paperback, in 24 languages. Some...