Word: mormon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Uruguay, even tried hitchhiking. He found it easy to contact potential converts that way because drivers were usually interested in why an American boy in suit and tie was hitchhiking on South American roads. That gave him a natural chance to explain the purpose of his mission, and the Mormon doctrine...
...probate court as the best available evidence of Hughes' intentions. The apparent aim is to block the legal offensive being prepared by Hughes' former aide Noah Dietrich, with whom Hughes split in 1956. Dietrich was named executor of the Hughes estate in the so-called Mormon will that appeared in the Salt Lake City headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints last April, and he has vowed to prove the validity of the will in court...
...neither the Summa carbon nor the Mormon will is accepted by a court as authentic, Hughes' estate will be divided among his next of kin; the chief benefactor would be Hughes' only surviving aunt, Mrs. Frederick Lummis, 85, a Houston widow who is William's mother. Even after taxes, the Lummises would probably collect about $300 million apiece. Understandably, the family is eager to have Howard's last place of U.S. residence declared to be Nevada, since it has no state inheritance tax. Texas and California, which have such taxes, are claiming...
After two years as U.S. Commissioner of Education, Terrel H. Bell, 54, stepped down from the top spot in American public education last week. A straight-talking Mormon and ex-Marine first sergeant, Bell is going on to a better paid position as commissioner of higher education in Utah (TIME, May 3). Some excerpts from a recent interview with Bell conducted by TIME Washington Correspondent Don Sider...
Another 63 propelled him to second in the 1972 Bob Hope Desert Classic and in 1970 he carded a 61 in the Phoenix. Miller has been rather dryly described as "a Mormon of abstemious habits who strides freely along the fairways with an air of dedicated, almost detached, purpose." But on Saturday he once again confirmed his ability to shoot for the jugular, as he humbled Royal Birkdale with a brilliant salvo of shots that earned him four birdies and an eagle on the thirteenth...