Word: mormon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Borne Catnaps. A ruggedly handsome man, Romney is a Mormon leader who neither smokes, drinks (not even tea or coffee) nor swears, and who gives 10% of his annual income (which amounted to $250,000 last year) to his church. Before he announced his gubernatorial candidacy last week, he fasted for 24 hours in prayerful consideration. A physical-fitness bug, he arises each morning at 5, jogs for a mile or so in a sweatsuit or bangs golf balls around the country club adjoining his $150,000 house in Bloomfield Hills, a Detroit suburb. Because of the many irons...
...later life, he received a rare second "call'' to return to mission work. In England, he took over a mission that had only 10,000 members, a scattering of rundown churches, 160 proselytizers. Woodbury called for more missionaries from Salt Lake City, pioneered a cram course in Mormon dogma that reduced the prebaptism indoctrination time from weeks to days. To spur hard-working missionaries toward greater efforts, Woodbury coined football-style "yells"' and such upbeat slogans as "Have Baptism, Will Travel.'' Mormons who exceeded their quotas of baptisms were allowed into an "Extra Mile Club...
Woodbury's missionary force now numbers more than 900 "elders'"-most of them earnest young (average age: 21) volunteers from the U.S. who, like all Mormon missionaries, receive no pay. Going out in pairs, the youthful Mormons are equipped with street maps, "conversion kits" and tape-recorded sermons, and are taught standard techniques for giving "home sacrament demonstrations." Explains Elder David Stewart Romney, 22:* "We just ring doorbells and say we are Mormon missionaries." Moving into a new town, Mormons also try to organize baseball teams for children, as an avenue to their parents. "We get the kids...
...Zeal. Woodbury's ascetic missionaries-they neither smoke nor drink tea. coffee or liquor-are generally , admired by rival churchmen for their selflessness and zeal. British clergymen are less keen on Woodbury's hard-sell style of making converts. Last year the Church of England assembly labeled Mormon missionaries "undesirables," and the Anglican student chaplain at the University of Durham recently criticized the "well-meant but overzealous attempts of overeager Mormon missionaries...
...Director Henry Moyle. What animosity there is seems likely to wane. This week, as Woodbury rounds out his three-year tour of duty, a new president with a flair for church diplomacy is on his way to London: Marion Duff Hanks. 40. who has been working full time on Mormon business as one of the church's 38 "General Authorities." Hanks plans a somewhat softer sell...