Word: mormon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...losing the war," he insists, adding with a flourish of Romneyesque euphuism: "The Viet Nam tail is wagging our global dog." And, in the midst of his political rhetoric, Mormon Romney invariably ticks off a litany of the nation's six "declines": "Decline of religious conviction, moral character, the quality of family life, the principle of individual responsibility, patriotism, and respect...
...resisters range from Mormon-run Brigham Young University, largest U.S. private school (enrollment...
...Negro Marine heard Mormon Romney speak and asked dryly: "Is the Governor letting Negroes into his church yet?" Another Marine at Danang refused at first to shake his hand. "I don't like some of the things you've been saying about Viet Nam," he explained. Romney was saying very little publicly on the subject last week, preferring, between field briefings, to conduct a political campaign of sorts. ("Get that hut in the background," he instructed a press aide at one stop, as he lifted a little girl in his arms.) President Thieu and Ambassador Bunker received Romney. U.S. military...
...Utah is that this is going to be a bleak winter. The strike has already cost more than $20 million in workers' wages. Many families are subsisting on strike benefits of from $10 to $30 a week or on welfare payments from the states or from the Mormon Church. Menus in the workers' homes have turned to bread and potatoes, stretched out with deer shot during the October hunting season. Businessmen who depend on miners are hurting too. G. R. Harmon, a grocer in the mining town of Granger, Utah, estimates that his business is off 62%. "People...
...GREAT BRAIN, by John D. Fitzgerald, illustrated by Mercer Mayer (Dial; $3.95). In Mormon Utah in 1896, Tom ("The Great Brain") is the craftiest kid around. Whether figuring a way to make money when his father gets the first flush toilet in town or teaching a one-legged boy how not to be "useless," Tom is very funny; the illustrations are excellent...