Word: foundering
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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HUEY NEWTON was the founder of the Party. The Panther uniform, the black community patrols, the ten-point platform and program, the Panther ideology-all are products of what the Panthers call "the genius of Hucy P. Newton." And after reading Seale's book, it becomes obvious why the Panthers call him a genius. He emerges as a brilliant man, completely dedicated to the goals of the platform-a man who has met and groped with the fear of death, the desire for personal glory, the desire for power, and all other temptations of leadership...
Piene, 42, who was a founder member of kinetic art's Group Zero and now works with M.I.T.'s Center for Advanced Visual Studies, had been asked to put on an outdoor sculptural event by Citything, Pittsburgh's public arts program. The resulting balloon show lasted three days, cost contributors around $5,000 in cash and another $4,000 in materials and services...
Died. George H. Soule, 82, liberal economist, prolific author and longtime editor (1924-1947) of the New Republic; of pneumonia; in Warren, Conn. A socialist in the Norman Thomas style, Soule followed Founder Herbert Croly's guideline "to start little insurrections in the realm of the readers' convictions." The effort involved attacking U.S.-style capitalism and urging nationalization of industry by democratic means. Soule carried on the campaign in his books on economics-Coming American Revolution (1934), Prosperity Decade (1947)-arguing for "any new revolution that may be justified by the interest and reason of the common...
...article on that page was about the cult of Scientology and its founder, L. Ron Hubbard. A photograph accompanying the articles showed a black man unloading crates from a truck. The caption to the photo read, "Scientology can change intelligence upward at the rate of one point per hour,' L. R. Hubbard...
...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...