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The cost of salvation is high. While the introductory lesson is only $15, it can cost as much as $5,000 to complete the entire Scientology course. "It's the only church I've ever seen with a cashier's booth," says a secretary from Texas who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cults: Meddling with Minds | 8/23/1968 | See Source »

In addition to Margin, the panel includes Sterling Patch, M.D., a congenital bureaucrat and head of the Bureau of Infantile Resources Potential, and Bert Rubble, director of a think tank called CEFALOPOD (Center for Attrition, Logistics, Policing and Deterrence). Rubble is by far the most amusing and terrifying character. A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Anti-Youth Movements | 8/2/1968 | See Source »

If nothing else, this novel shows that literature is perhaps the most Victorian of arts, the most difficult to mold into new patterns, the hardest to fake. Despite prophecies of the novel's doom, it may be that the old-fashioned virtues of story, characterization and dramatic prose exposition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Grey Humor | 7/26/1968 | See Source »

Lindbergh wired tiny Ryan Airlines, Inc. in February 1927. The answer was yes, and Hall, Ryan's only engineer, was as good as his word, producing in 60 days the single-engined craft that Lindy flew 3,610 miles across the Atlantic and into the history books. Died. Francis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 12, 1968 | 7/12/1968 | See Source »

Georgia's Governor Lester Maddox, 52, is a man of few words, his favorite one normally being the all-purpose expletive "Phooey!" On occasion, Maddox applies it personally to irksome political critics and statehouse correspondents ("Phooey on you, phooey on you, and phooey on you!"). Last week Atlanta Attorney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 5, 1968 | 7/5/1968 | See Source »

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