Word: mormons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...former officiary of the Mormon church, he was on surer ground moralizing about what he considers the nation's most pressing problem, the disintegration of the American family. "There has been a decline," he told his fellow Governors, "in the faith, belief and principles on which America was built." The solution? "Personal responsibility, family responsibility and private institutional responsibility-and the place to start is in the home...
...electing John Kennedy their first Roman Catholic President, U.S. voters swatted down the WASPish fetish that religion is automatically a criterion for presidential or vice-presidential candidacy. The Republicans may give tradition a further gig in 1968. Michigan Governor George Romney, a Mormon, is one of the most promising possibilities for the Republican presidential nomination. For geographic balance alone, the G.O.P. might well pick Romney's new but warm friend, New York Senator Jacob Javits, as his running mate, there by setting up an unprecedentedly balanced, Mormon-Jewish ticket...
...After Mormon Prophet Joseph Smith Jr. was killed by an Illinois lynch mob in 1844, Brigham Young led 10,000 of his followers on the great westward trek to the land of Zion that became Utah. Not all of the new religionists went with him. Denouncing Young as a usurper, a little band of Smith's disciples stayed in the Midwest to form the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, which last week opened its biennial world conference at its dome-topped headquarters in Independence...
...Reorganized Saints do not call themselves Mormons, and differ with the Utah church on a number of doctrinal issues. They have never practiced polygamy, and admit Negroes to the priesthood-although only a few hundred belong to the church. Both churches accept the Book of Mormon as inspired scripture along with the Bible, and both believe that God provides continuous revelation through the church President. Last week Wallace Smith told the 20,000 delegates and visitors at Independence that his newest guidance calls for a replacement of certain officers in the hierarchy and for an expanded new program of evangelism...
...Keep yourself morally clean," Mormon Dianna Lynn Batts, 37-23-37, instructed the teen-agers in Assembly Hall in Salt Lake City. And, continued the modestly frocked Miss U.S.A., when someone offers you a cigarette or a drink, just turn it down: "People will respect you for it." Alas, the advice came too late for Britain's Lesley Langley, 37-24-37, the girl who beat Dianna for the Miss World title last fall. She had already posed for a six-page spread in Cavalier, sunbathing and sipping champagne without so much as her winner's banner...