Word: mormons
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...hand were former G.O.P. National Chairman Leonard Hall; J. Willard Marriott, the Mormon millionaire owner of the Hot Shoppe restaurant chain and Marriott Motor Hotels; Clifford Folger, the Washington financier who was national Republican finance chairman for the presidential campaigns of 1956 and 1960; L. William Seidman, a wealthy Michigan accountant with offices around the world, who ran unsuccessfully for state auditor on Romney's ticket in 1962; Detroit Real Estate Millionaire Max Fisher, this year's national chairman of the United Jewish Appeal. Also present were Romney's attorney, Richard van Dusen...
Founded by a pious Mormon who reached Arizona in 1880, the Udalls now total some 400. Last week about 175 of them showed up in Mesa, Arizona, from as far away as Missouri and California for a weekend of picnicking, dancing, camping and familial yakking. U.S. Interior Secretary Stewart Udall and his brother Morris...
...Romney, after four years in office, is still something of an unknown factor. He looks the part of a President and, as a devout Mormon, is morally about as upright as a candidate can be. But even those who lean toward him are not sure that he has the depth for the job, and some express concern over his tendency toward sanctimoniousness. One gag has an aide telling Romney, as the two emerge from a meeting, "Beautiful day, Governor." Romney's reply: "Thank you." Over the next 20 months, the undecided Republicans will be studying his performance with microscopic care...
...first unabashedly highbrow publication in Mormon history, Dialogue* gets no financial support from the church, is designed to keep intelligent, educated Mormons who might otherwise fall by the wayside within the community of Saints. Its tone contrasts sharply with that of the vast array of official Mormon publications-ranging from Salt Lake City's daily Deseret News to the Relief Society Magazine, a women's monthly-which read like house organs and propagate what one Dialogue editor calls "the myth of the unruffled Mormon," impervious to doubt. In reality, argues Dialogue's book-review editor, Richard...
Back from the Abyss. Dialogue has opened its pages to criticism from nonbelievers. In the first issue, Presbyterian Theologian Robert McAfee Brown politely suggested that Mormons seem more interested in conversion than in genuine dialogue with other Christians, while Roman Catholic Mario S. De Pillis argued that Mormon histories of their church have been less than thorough in explaining its origins. In the 145-page second issue, published this month, Political Science Professor Louis Midgley of Brigham Young University presents a surprisingly sympathetic Mormon criticism of the late Paul Tillich's vision of a nonpersonal God. In another article...