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Kimball is by no means the first Mormon leader to alter a major doctrine. The most famous earlier example occurred in 1890, when one of Prophet Smith's successors ended the "everlasting covenant" of polygamy after the practice had plunged the church into a bitter, and losing, battle with the U.S. Government...
...European monetary fund, which would make loans to weaker members of the system that needed to finance deficits or prop up their currencies to ECU levels. How much each nation would contribute to the common fund is still being discussed, but the West Germans would supply the major share...
...investigators demanded to see books and records of these supplier companies, which, in turn, generally complied with the wishes of the valued customer. According to a source at a major New York City investment bank, the questions asked about Iacocca by the investigators were of a particularly leading and accusing nature. This, said the source, was, as much as anything, responsible for stirring up rumor and innuendo about Iacocca...
Like most Government programs, Impact Aid began as a modest proposal to solve a major problem?and just grew and grew. As the armed forces built up during World War II and the Korean War, military bases mushroomed overnight and threw heavy burdens on local school districts, which were expected to educate children of servicemen. In Midwest City, Okla., for example, the number of kids in classes jumped from 285 to 1,500 in one year after Tinker Air Force Base opened near by. School officials around the country lobbied Congress to pass a law granting federal aid in lieu...
...good deal more to be proud of. In his 16th major league season, "Charlie Hustle," the man of the headfirst slide, has plunged headlong into the record books, taking with him a new mark for consecutive-game hitting streaks by modern-era National Leaguers. Last week Rose surpassed Tommy Holmes' 37-game record, set in 1945. Then, tackling the American League, he moved past Ty Cobb (40 in 1911) and tied George Sisler (41 in 1922) in pursuit of Joe DiMaggio's 56-game major league record...