Word: brigham
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appearances in Los Angeles tied up traffic on the Hollywood Freeway for hours. He drew an overflow crowd of 12,000 at Brigham Young University in conservative Utah, even though campus authorities declined to cancel classes for the occasion. In Lincoln, Neb., he attracted the biggest political audience (12,000) since Dwight Eisenhower stopped there 16 years...
...long suspected that organs donated by cancer victims might cause danger-and possibly death -to their recipients. Still, for lack of other available transplant sources, they continued using them. Last week, writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, a kidney transplant team at Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital told how cancer can be transplanted along with a donated organ. At the same time, they provided new, clear-cut evidence that cancer, like a foreign organ, can also be rejected...
...resisters range from Mormon-run Brigham Young University, largest U.S. private school (enrollment...
...church opposition, especially among Baptists, is based on the constitutional principle of separation of church and state in its strictest form. This is often combined with a conservative political philosophy that distrusts strong central Government and big federal spending. Brigham Young President Ernest L. Wilkinson, an unsuccessful Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in 1964, argues, for example, that the federal debt already is too high and that B.Y.U. does not intend "to be a party to the insolvency of our country." Federal gifts, he holds, lead inevitably to federal control, since "it would be an irresponsible Government...
...holdouts are showing some give -and take. Brigham Young lets its professors accept federal research grants. The reason is not simply, as President Wilkinson argues, that "the research we give is worth every cent we get," but also that the grants help him attract competent scholars to strengthen a generally mediocre faculty. Even Baptist opposition is softening. Such Baptist schools as Baylor, Wake Forest and Mercer have risked the ire of some church officials by accepting aid. Says M. Norvel Young, president of Los Angeles' Pepperdine College, a wavering holdout: "We'd like to paddle our own canoe...