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Whatever they may do or leave undone about their Negro brethren, most U.S. churches hold that all men are equal before God. One notable exception: the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Book of Mormon teaches that the colored races are descendants of the evil children of Laman and Lemuel, who impiously warred against the good children of Nephi and received their pigmented skin as punishment. Last week a Utah State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights drew on this Mormon scripture in a scathing report on the state of the tiny nonwhite minority...
...presented my basic reasons for vetoing the proposed Sunday Closing Law [which would close grocery, clothing, etc., stores on Sundays-March 2]. However, I regret the manner of the article's presentation, which made it appear a direct conflict between myself and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon), of which I am an active member...
...British, the American position on specific problems often seemed, in latter-day diplomatic parlance, to be "rigid." To the U.S., the British view sometimes seemed best symbolized by an umbrella and bent toward dangerous compromise. Areas of discussion...
...some up-and-coming young professional men from the Syndicate. They were all talking about the South, but I was able to join in easily with an off-hand remark about Governor Almond's blowing "off his mask of cool legality" and taking "to the air waves like a latter-day Faubus." Then one of my business-leader friends told me that Almond has acquiesced to the court orders and had persuaded the emergency session of the Virginia legislature to go along with him in destroying massive resistance. Well, of course, I knew better, because your lead article had quoted...
...that the conditions at the top of the world, which confuse both magnetic and gyro compasses, would doom Nautilus to a game of "longitude roulette," in which the directionless ship might wander aimlessly around the Arctic Ocean without finding either of the two water exits-like a sort of latter-day Flying Dutchman. This fear was banished on the historic '58 voyage by the installation of a complex inertial navigator...