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...With names of ancestors, and towns, counties and states where they lived, visit the nearest of more than 20 genealogy libraries maintained by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons). The branch can draw on resources of the central Mormon library in Salt Lake City, which has the world's largest repository of family genealogical information (on microfilm alone it has the equivalent of 4.3 million 300-page printed volumes). Its resources are open to non-Mormons and Mormons alike...
...prosyletize "just try to persuade people that their view is the right view." He said he thinks "there is no doubt that the Unification Church is already blending into the religious atmosphere of the country. They will soon get tame and conventionalized." Cox compared the Unification Church to the Mormon Church, noting that the Mormons were also persecuted when they were founded--and that they also mix business and religion. "They own the state of Utah," he said, "but they are respectable and Moonies...
After a couple of years out West--where he picked up his teetotaling habits from a Mormon family after, he confesses, having spent a night or two during his undergraduate days awash in the suds--he returned to Harvard to take two years of medical courses. Then, Fish spent two years as assistant coach, after which he was ready to step into Barnaby's very big shoes...
Last Efforts. Outside the prison, the many-sided legal battles raced on. Attorney Douglas Wallace, an excommunicated Mormon, petitioned the Supreme Court to stop the firing squad because, he claimed, it was part of "a paganistic ritual" supported by the Mormon-dominated Utah legislature. The court rejected his petition. Two last-minute efforts to save Gilmore began on Friday. American Civil Liberties Union Lawyer V. Jinks Dabney filed a class-action suit in district court seeking a delay. His claim: that the execution was a waste of taxpayers' money, and that the state would be liable for damages...
Learning Process. Dayton, a devout Mormon, studied radio and television at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, later wound up as a cab driver and part-time film technician in Los Angeles before deciding that the only way he could break into the business in a big way would be to become a film maker himself. He now drives a brown Cadillac Seville (license: GRATED) and is working on a deal to merge with a California book publisher. Why? Says he: "It looks to us like a synergistic merger. That's a word I just learned. It means...