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Armstrong discovered that even Hubbard's personal background was a sham. Public records show that when Hubbard had claimed to be traveling through Asia and the South Pacific from 1925 to 1929, learning what he called "the secrets of life" from magicians, lamas, priests and wise men, he was actually a mediocre high school student. Although Hubbard presented himself as a highly educated man, he flunked out of George Washington University's engineering school after two years...
...certainly aware of my own office having much [asbestos] in it," said Kurt P. Wise, a researcher and teaching fellow, Wise explained that because only a small percentage of cabinets that were on display to the public contained asbestos, it was "only the researchers who end up getting affected" by the rest of the cabinets...
...shocked that TIME chose the computer as its Man of the Year [Jan. 3]. But I failed to come up with someone or something better. Nothing else has so permanently affected the world in 1982. A wise choice...
...Government is not the system," says the wise and amiable G.O.P. Congressman from New York Barber Conable. "We keep forgetting that in Washington. Government can help. But for the most part Government is behind the curve. It responds to the people." The people now are moving away from Reagan in blocs, weakening his base of power. If there is no change soon, his presidency will be largely ceremonial for the next two years...
...stuck in some weird, high-strung limbo between hope and hopelessness. Inmates' optimism is the manic wishfulness of losing gamblers. Their fatalism is generally not wise but numb, a brute shrug...