Word: deseret
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...Americans have never been so overcommitted in foreign entanglements," thundered a recent editorial in the Deseret News. "Never have their natural resources been so extravagantly used, never has the national deficit been so great except in times of all-out war, never have taxes been higher, inflation more out of hand; never has youth faced a more uncertain future, never have there been heavier encroachments on personal liberty by an all-powerful federal government, never has crime been more ugly and broad, never the air more polluted, food, clothing more expensive-ad infinitum...
...Dialogue* gets no financial support from the church, is designed to keep intelligent, educated Mormons who might otherwise fall by the wayside within the community of Saints. Its tone contrasts sharply with that of the vast array of official Mormon publications-ranging from Salt Lake City's daily Deseret News to the Relief Society Magazine, a women's monthly-which read like house organs and propagate what one Dialogue editor calls "the myth of the unruffled Mormon," impervious to doubt. In reality, argues Dialogue's book-review editor, Richard L. Bushman, a history professor at Brigham Young...
...Metropolitan Hall of Justice, which was too small before it was built, to its latest exclusive that the Internal Revenue Service has no record of receiving income-tax returns from Utah's Democratic Attor ney General Phil Hansen for either 1962 or 1963, an exclusive that the Deseret News later headlined with...
...fourfold increase in circulation (to 30,000) or the fact that the Rosenblatts expect to make a profit this fall, despite original expectations of running in the red for four years. It is even more significant that the weekly Review has made the morning Tribune and the afternoon Deseret News notice that they no longer monopolize the news in Salt Lake City...
Refreshing Candor. Last week the stamina of the Deseret News's Price correspondent paid off again-in a more handsome manner. For "distinguished"' reporting under deadline pressure, Robert David Mullins won one of journalism's most coveted awards, a Pulitzer Prize. The Deseret News, which had been aching to even the score with the Tribune,* knew just how to react: it plastered self-congratulations all over the paper. But hardworking Correspondent Mullins. who was scooped on the major portions of his story, could hardly understand what all the shouting was about. Said he with refreshing candor...