Word: foundered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Probably no philosopher of modern times has had the popularity and appeal of Hubbard or such startling successes within his own lifetime. And Mankind has had no better friend." So ends the standard short biography of Hubbard found in nearly every Scientology publication. Large photographs of the Founder are hung in most Scientology centers. Hubbard divides his time today between a mansion in England and a ship in the Mediterranean, where he is supposedly conducting research. There is reason to believe that he is also making a fortune out of his mushrooming empire-it was reported...
...Lenin's birth approached, a flood of books, articles, paintings, plays, movies, symphonies, posters, busts, lapel buttons, and even special candy bars washed over the Soviet Union and some 100 other countries as well. The atheistic Soviet state is coming very close to conferring secular sainthood on its founder...
Although Cortes Wesley Randell, 34, liked to say that he "wouldn't consider hiring anyone over 30," the founder of the National Student Marketing Corp. was hardly a hirsute radical himself. In five years, he worked himself up to a Lear Jet and a $600,000 Virginia horse-country estate by tapping the youth market and using its glamour to make money on the stock market. Then the paper profits suddenly vanished. Last week N.S.M. stock had sunk to $3 from December's high of $72, the Securities and Exchange Commission was looking into insider dealings, and some...
Bowie added he did not know which of the other committee members would be present today. Other members include Charles W. Yost, U.S. ambassador to the U.N., Franklin A. Lindsay, founder of the Green Berets; and George W. Ball, former Undersecretary of State...
BOBBY SEALE, 33, a founder and chairman of the Black Panther party and one of the original defendants in the Chicago conspiracy trial until separated for disrupting the courtroom. Judge Julius Hoffman declared a mistrial in Scale's case and sentenced him to four years for contempt. He was recently extradited from California to Connecticut, where he faces charges for the kidnaping and murder of another Panther. The most radical of the three, he seeks an interracial revolution that would create a Marxist-styled socialistic form of government in the U.S. He is convinced that blacks can never achieve...