The Ability C ongress held at the Shoreham Hotel Decem ber 29 to 31, was a reco rd breaker for winter C ongresses. Attended by m ore than 3 00 people, all seem ed delighted, with the lectu res and sem in ars. The program was a real "sm ash er. " The C ongress opened on a note of comedy. Ron "launched1 a Ffftnik which rose to the top of the stage and exploded into a shower of ping pong balls. Im m ediately after, a round sphere circled the stage emitting sputnik-like beeps. Getting into the swing of it, the program continued with a com plete run-down on the history of organizations showing that a steady increase in volume shows Scientology to be of g reater scope than D ianetics ever was at its highest peak. Ron gave a full description of the state of C lear and gave full details of the techniques n ecessary for producing clears. C o p y r i g h t 0 1958 by L. Ron Hubbard World Rights Reserved
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Ron g ets the C o n g re ss going w ith a BANG as he r e le a s e s "F ffnik" - it went "F fft" (as planned), then re le a s e d ping pong b alls on the d e leg ate s in the fro n t ro w s. LRH J r. (Nibs) gives the S e m in a r a r u n down on the p ro c e s s about to be d e m o n s tra te d by tw o HCA stu d en ts.
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