Word: mormon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unquestioning belief rather than critical self-examination has always been the Mormon style. Breaking with this tradition, a group of young Mormon intellectuals, all of whom went to either Harvard or Stanford, have brought out Dialogue, a learned quarterly dedicated to the proposition that the faith of the Latter-day Saints is compatible with reasoned inquiry...
Last week Journal leaders reported that Mormon Apostle Ezra Taft Benson has been trying to push his church into an ultraconservative political stance; that the Federal Government has be come disenchanted with de facto segregated neighborhood schools, is now subtly pushing such ideas as "education plazas" that would serve the school needs of an entire community; and that a growing number of juvenile courts are using teen-age "juries" to recommend sentences for young errants...
...Salt Lake City's KUTV put together a documentary on local vice, including interviews with prostitutes, pimps, addicts and juvenile delinquents. So thoroughly was the seamy side of the city uncovered that its Mormon population was shocked. The show is now rerun regularly in sociology courses at the universities of Utah and Brigham Young...
William Earl Casper Jr., 35, used to be a fat, sick Congregationalist, who won a lot of money playing golf. He is now a slim, healthy Mormon. Nothing else has changed. Last week, at San Francisco's Olympic Country Club golf course, Billy won the U.S. Open for the second time-without even trying...
...them all. Casper did it spectacularly. Once the "fat young man" of the pro tour, now slimmed down 45 Ibs. (to 180 Ibs. on his 5-ft. 11-in. frame) on an antiallergy diet that includes such entrées as buffalo steak and mooseburgers, Billy was converted to Mormonism last Jan. 1 and spent the night before the play-off attending a church "fireside" 35 miles from San Francisco. Next day he fired his fourth subpar round of the tournament-a one under 69-to beat Palmer by four strokes for the $25,000 winner's purse...