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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through its key legislative spokesman and its powerful daily Deseret News and Salt Lake Telegram (circ. 85.105), the voice of the Mormon Church made its message clear to heavily Mormon (65.5%) Utah. The message: it was high time for the legislature to enact a new Sunday closing law to replace the one declared unconstitutional in 1943. Under similar pressure from the big merchants and supermarket operators (who would have to pay union labor triple pay to stay open on Sunday), both houses of the legislature comfortably passed a bill prohibiting Sunday sale of uncooked meats, groceries, clothing, boots and shoes...
...fast that many-including most Cyp-riots-felt a sense of relief but not yet of exhilaration. Their first responses were tentative and uncertain. Seven hundred young Turkish Cypriot students paraded through Nicosia, shouting the old cries-"Death to Makarios!"-but were easily dispersed. In one town Greek church bells pealed for 20 minutes after the London agreement was announced, then stopped. No one was quite sure how to react. What would happen to Colonel George Grivas, mysterious leader of the EOKA terrorist underground, who once pledged himself to keep on fighting, no matter if everyone else gave up? Would...
...first of a series of four Sunday Lenten evening services of music will be held on Sunday at 8 p.m. in Memorial Church...
...Nevada, Mo. Louise Phillips, 17, and J. P. Ashley, 20, a coast guardsman stationed in Hawaii, were married in a transpacific telephone ceremony heard over a church loudspeaker by 125 wedding guests...
...year). He dresses conservatively, usually in blue serge suits. His modest four-bedroom house in Bronxville, N.Y. is distinguished only by its six telephones, which cost him nothing. He and his wife, a University of Minnesota girl, have two daughters. An elder of the Dutch Reformed Church, Kappel does not smoke, drinks rarely-but can play shirtsleeve poker (a quarter a raise) with the best...