Word: mormon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SEPARATED. Marie Osmond, 25, wholesome prima donna of the devoutly Mormon Osmond family; and her husband of 2½ years, Stephen L. Craig, 27, a former Brigham Young University Basketball Player; in Los Angeles. The couple have a 19-month-old son, who has returned to Orem, Utah, with his mother...
...sensitive security work. Says a retired agent on the West Coast: "Why was he on that job, of all jobs? You should bury him working draft dodgers or stolen cars." One theory, which has been raised by many agents but with little substantiation, is that Miller, who was a Mormon, had been given some protection by fellow Mormons within the bureau. He had been transferred to intelligence after the Los Angeles division director, Richard Bretzing, also a Mormon, was appointed. One FBI co-worker charged that Bretzing and Bryce Christensen, another Mormon who is Miller's supervisor, might have...
...last year's winner, the judges' choice of Miss Utah as the new Miss America seemed made in promotional heaven. Sharlene Wells, 20, began her reign last week by promising a return to "traditional values." The 120-lb., 5-ft. 8-in. blond daughter of a Mormon missionary does not smoke, drink, take drugs, believe in abortion, condone premarital sex or back the Equal Rights Amendment ("The ERA would make us a neuter society; I prefer to be a woman"). A communications major at Brigham Young University who wants to become a news anchorwoman, Wells bristles...
...strange discords that often remain when the city changes but the name remains. When they were in New Orleans, the Utah Jazz had a harmonious name, but when they moved west it would have been sensible to change their name to something locally resonant--perhaps to the Utah Mormon Tabernacle Choir, a uniquely felonious appellation. New Orleans sorrow at the loss of their Jazz has been partially ameliorated by the acquisition of the USFL's Breakers, another team whose name made more sense when it was connected to its original city--at least Boston has a seashore...
Johnson gained national attention in 1979 when she was excommunicated from the Mormon Church for supporting the Equal Rights Amendment. "The Mormons helped me enormously by shooting me out into the world," she said...