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...leaders retire, even past the recommended retirement age (75) that Pope Paul VI has set down for Roman Catholic bishops. But when he died last week of acute heart congestion at the age of 96, even his final years of feebleness could not dim the conviction that David O. McKay had done more in his 19-year tenure to change the image and direction of the Mormon Church than any president since Brigham Young himself...
Reviewing his life in 1968, McKay suggested that his greatest achievement was to have made the church a worldwide organization. During his presidency, the Mormon rolls expanded from just over 1,000,000 to 2,815,000. He opened five new Temples: in Oakland, Los Angeles, New Zealand, Switzerland and London. The Temples -not to be confused with lower-ranking Mormon meeting houses-enabled Europeans for the first time to perform the sacred Mormon Temple rites, such as "endowment" (a vow to live church principles) or "sealing" of marriages "for time and eternity," without traveling to North America. Missions grew...
Global Thinking. David Oman McKay was the grandson of Scottish and Welsh immigrants, Mormon converts, who settled in Utah in the mid-19th century. Born near Ogden on a farm that he maintained until his death, McKay followed his father, a farmer-teacher, into education. But a turn as a church missionary in Scotland involved him ever after in church affairs, and by 1906, at the age of 32, he was called to membership in the Council of the Twelve Apostles, the church's governing body...
...those present at the White House meeting-Howard W. Emmons, Gordon McKay Professor of Mechanical Engineering-said, however, that Dubridge had offered no indication he would actually be able to find another Federal tenant for the $36 million facility. "There is no optimism or pessimism about finding one at this time," Emmons said yesterday...
...Page One of the Sun and other London papers last week was the bizarre story of the disappearance of Mrs. Alick McKay, wife of a director of the News of the World. As police sought to establish whether she had been kidnaped, they were deluged with calls from clairvoyants and cranks. One anonymous letter concluded: "I will let Mrs. McKay go if the News of the World and the Sun publikly announce that they will not corupt our kids any more by printing all that filth...