Word: mormon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week, 106 years after he wrote them, the words of the great patriarch of the Latter-day Saints came abundantly true. Some, 6,000 Mormons, led by President David O. McKay and ten of the Church's twelve Apostles, assembled atop a Los Angeles hill to lay the cornerstone of the largest (and eleventh) Mormon temple ever built...
...massive Mayan-style building, covered with cast panels of cement and Wasatch crushed rock, which overlooks the Pacific on the west and downtown Los Angeles on the east. When the temple is finished in the fall of 1955, the City of the Angels will have a new guardian-the Mormon's own Angel Moroni, in aluminum and gold leaf, sounding his trumpet from the templetop, 262 feet above the ground...
...Mormon Church outlawed polygamy 63 years ago, but tiny outlaw cults, defiantly devoted to plural marriage, have gone on springing up in out-of-the-way corners of the Southwest ever since. Back in the '30s half a dozen renegade Mormon fundamentalists and their women trekked into one of the wildest and loneliest areas left in the U.S.-the unpoliced, almost uninhabited strip of tumbled, gorge-cut Arizona desert north of the Grand Canyon. They settled there at the little shack town of Short Creek, beneath high red cliffs named the Towers of Tummurru...
...Real Solution. Secretary Benson is basically against Government price supports and controls, but he approves of them in precisely this kind of situation- to prevent disaster. Said Mormon Apostle Benson: "We will move just as expeditiously as humanly possible. You people don't want handouts, you want help to help yourselves. I know that your hearts and sentiments are in this, and we want you to stay on your land. And may the Good Lord send us moisture from above...
...Perhaps Mormon Benson might do well to let the spirit of the First Saint permeate his piousness with the basic Christian tenet of the brotherhood of all men-including the man in the overalls...