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24 items found between Jan 1966 and Dec 1966.
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Dec 11, 1966
Scientology as it is practiced in its Detroit temple — Detroit Free Press
Dec 1, 1966
What is greatness — New Cosmic Star (Lawndale, California)
Oct 1, 1966
Scientology and the FDA — Fate Magazine
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Type: Press
Author(s): Richard E. Saunders
Source: Fate Magazine
Public will pay high price for its apathy — if even government agencies become electronic snoops. MOST AMERICANS take religious freedom for granted. Some may be vaguely aware that it is guaranteed by the first amendment to the Constitution because some of the very early settlers on this continent came in search of just this freedom, but their general attitude is one of indifference. Unfortunately their lofty assumption that churches never are harassed in this country is incorrect. Even more unfortunately, ...
Sep 16, 1966
Conviction of Seattle man upheld — Spokesman-Review (Washington)
Sep 11, 1966
Cult tells members to mutiny — Sunday Mirror (Australia)
Sep 4, 1966
Cult ban puts Bolte on death list — Sunday Mirror (Australia)
Type: Press
Source: Sunday Mirror (Australia)
Twelve rag dolls found buried under a Melbourne house are thought to symbolise the death sentence against 12 people who helped outlaw the cult of scientology in Victoria. High on the list of the 12 is the Premier of Victoria, Sir Henry Bolte. The dolls were discovered in a box hidden under floorboards which had been ripped up and then nailed down again to make a tomb. They were unearthed by workmen renovating the building, formerly the headquarters of scientology in ...
Sep 1, 1966
My philosophy — New Cosmic Star (Lawndale, California)
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Type: Press
Author(s): L. Ron Hubbard
Source: New Cosmic Star (Lawndale, California)
The subject of philosophy is very ancient. The word means: 'The love, study or pursuit of wisdom, or of knowledge of things and their causes; whether theoretical or practical. All we know of science or of religion comes from philosophy. It lies behind and above all other knowledge we have or use. For long regarded as a subject reserved for halls of learning and the intellectual, the subject, to a remarkable degree, has been denied the man in the street. Surrounded ...
Aug 22, 1966
Is this the happiest man in the world? — Macleans
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Type: Press
Author(s): Wendy Michener
Source: Macleans
His name is John McMaster. Once he was a mess like the rest of us. Now he's a "clear", one of the saints of a new cult called Scientology — without a single "engram" left to bug him. SOMETHING VERY ODD is going on in Toronto. People are leaving the country, changing their occupations, giving up their children, leaving their husbands, wives, or lovers, changing their whole lives. All in the name of something called Scientology. The whole thing got started ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Aug 22, 1966
Minister is asked to investigate... The case of the processed woman — Daily Mail (UK)
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Type: Press
Source: Daily Mail (UK)
THE MINISTER of Health has been asked to order an inquiry into Scientology, the pseudo-psychological cult, following the mental breakdown of a woman "student." The woman, who has a ten-year history of mental illness, is now compulsorily detained in hospital under a 28-day order. Her psychiatric background was known to the "highly qualified" Scientologist who recruited her to the cult and gave her forms of psychological "processing." Scientology practitioners and their "qualifications" have no official medical or academic recognition. Among the ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Jul 15, 1966
Banned by Rhodesia — The Times (UK)
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Type: Press
Source: The Times (UK)
SALISBURY, July 14 — Mr. Lafayette Hubbard, founder of the scientology health cult, said today that the Rhodesian Government had ordered him to leave the country by July 18.—Reuter.
Jul 15, 1966
Financier must qui Rhodesia — Rhodesia Herald
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Type: Press
Source: Rhodesia Herald
Mr. L. RON HUBBARD, the American financier who was recently involved in the purchase of the Bumi Hills Hotel and in number of other big business deals in Rhodesia, has been refused permission to stay in the country and has until next Monday to leave. The founder of the controversial scientology movement, has been told by the Ministry of Immigration that his temporary alien's residence permit will not be renewed, a spokesman for Mr. Hubbard said last night. The spokesman said ...
Jul 14, 1966
U.S. financier is refused residence permit -- told to leave by next monday — Bulawayo Chronicle
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Type: Press
Source: Bulawayo Chronicle
MR. L. RON HUBBARD, the American financier recently involved in the purchase of the Bumi Hills Hotel and in a number of other big business deals in Rhodesia, has been refused permission to stay in the country and has until next Monday to leave. Mr. Hubbard, founder of the controversial Scientology movement, has been told by the Ministry of Immigration that his temporary alien's residence permit will not be renewed, according to a spokesman for Mr. Hubbard. ''The spokesman said the ...
Jun 29, 1966
Clamp on science movement policed — Canberra Times (Australia)
Type: Press
Source: Canberra Times (Australia)
MELBOURNE, Tuesday. — The Victorian Psychological Council of eight members, to register all people entitled to practise psychology in Victoria, was set up today. The council will police legislation banning scientology in Victoria. Members of the council, appointed by the State Executive Council today, are: Dr Alexander John Maum Sinclair, past president of the Victorian branch of the Australian Medical Association; Dr Eric Cunningham Dax, chairman of the Mental Health Authority; Dr James Valentine Ashburner, nominated by the Victorian branch of ...
Item contributed by: Zhent (Anonymous)
Jun 29, 1966
Eight will control psychology in Vic — The Age (Australia)
Type: Press
Source: The Age (Australia)
A TOORAK lawyer — Mr. G. H. Crowther — has been chosen as head of the body which will in future control psychology practice in Victoria. Mr. Crowther was named yesterday as chairman of the eight-member Victorian Psychological Council, whose appointments were approved by the State Executive Council. The appointments were made under the Psychological Practices Act, passed last December, which banned Scientology in Victoria and provided for the control of commercial psychology. The newly formed council will be responsible for ...
Item contributed by: Zhent (Anonymous)
Jun 21, 1966
ADS7 looks at scientology — Advertiser (Australia)
Type: Promotion
Source: Advertiser (Australia)
The controversial cult of scientology, which has been banned in Victoria, will be discussed in ADS7's public affairs programme This Week at 10.5 tonight. Brian Taylor will interview Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Mainsbridge, of Tusmore, who gave evidence before the Royal Commission into scientology in Victoria. Mr. Mansbridge is a senior lecturer at the SA Institute of Technology and his wife is a primary school teacher. At the enquiry the couple gave evidence in support of the cult, but in ...
Item contributed by: Zhent (Anonymous)
May 22, 1966
Millionaire in Bumi Hills hotel deal [article incomplete] — Sunday Mail Reporter (Rhodesia)
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Type: Press
Source: Sunday Mail Reporter (Rhodesia)
AMERICAN millionaire financier L. Ron Hubbard, the man who [?] the controversial scientology movement, has moved into Rodhesia, has settled in a luxurious house in Salisbury and last week he [?] through his first business deal in this country. With two local business men, Mr. Aubrey Davies, a garage owner, and Mr. John Plagis, a property owner, he bought the Bumi Hills Hotel at Kariba by private treaty. A week earlier the highest bid for the hotel at an auction sale ...
Mar 20, 1966
One man Britain can do without / He is sending out spies to smear anybody who dares attack his strange cult — The People
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Type: Press
Author(s): Derek Ive
Source: The People
HE IS SENDING OUT SPIES TO SMEAR ANYBODY WHO DARES ATTACK HIS STRANGE CULT [Photos / Caption: Mr. Hubbard . . . from him, dangerous words.] [Photos / Caption: Mr. Sharpe . . . from him, angry words.] BEHIND the elegant walls of a country mansion in Sussex, a nasty enterprise is being directed by the head of a strange American cult. It is an evil plan which will offend every fair-minded citizen in this country. The man is Lafayette Ron ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Mar 11, 1966
New Scientology probe sought — The Age (Australia)
Type: Press
Source: The Age (Australia)
The Chief Secretary (Mr. Rylah) has asked police to check on undercover Scientology operations in Victoria. This follows growing evidence of Scientology propaganda being posted in Melbourne and distributed to addresses in Victoria and elsewhere. In Brisbane on Wednesday a woman reported she had received a Scientology publication bearing a Russell Street porkmark. Victoria has already taken the matter up with the Postmaster-General's department to see if action can be taken to stop Scientology pamphlets being distributed through the mails. However, ...
Item contributed by: Zhent (Anonymous)
Mar 10, 1966
Outlawed, but active — Courier Mail (Australia)
Type: Press
Source: Courier Mail (Australia)
A BRISBANE woman has received a Scientology publication by mail from Melbourne. It is post-marked "Russell Street." The Victorian Attorney-General (Mr. A. G. Rylah) said earlier this week Scientology literature was being mailed into Victoria from London. The movement was banned in Victoria last December. Mr. K. V. Anderson, Q.C., reported that it was a perverted and dangerous form of psychology. The copy of "Communication" mailed from Russell Street to the Brisbane woman this week is the January issue and is ...
Item contributed by: Zhent (Anonymous)
Mar 10, 1966
Scientology literature: Banned, but operates — The Age (Australia)
Type: Press
Source: The Age (Australia)
BRISBANE. - Scientology is still operating in Victoria, where it was outlawed last December. A brisbane woman has received the Scientologist periodical "Communication" through the post - mailed from Melbourne. It is postmarked "Russell Street." The Victorian Attorney-General (Mr. Rylah) said earlier this week Scientology literature was being mailed into Victoria from London. He said the Victorian Government had asked the Postmaster-General to act to stop the practice. January issue The copy of "Communication" mailed from Russell Street to the Brisbane ...
Mar 8, 1966
Personal // Public Notice [L. Ron Hubbard publicly relinquishes the title of "Doctor"] — The Times (UK)
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Type: Press
Source: The Times (UK)
PUBLIC NOTICE — I, L. RON HUBBARD, of Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex, having reviewed the damage being done in our society with nuclear physics and psychiatry by persons calling themselves "Doctor", do hereby resign in protest my university degree as a doctor of philosophy (Ph.D.), anticipating an early public outcry against anyone called "Doctor"; and although not in anyway connected with bombs or "psychiatric treatment" or treatment of the sick, and interested only and always in philosophy and the ...
Feb 14, 1966
Attention the Minister of Health: This man is bogus — Daily Mail (UK)
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Feb 7, 1966
House of Commons / Official report / Parliamentary debates
Jan 29, 1966
Court sympathy for scientology victim — The Age (Australia)
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