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...actions of the German army in Belgium and France at the start of World War I). Gang rape appears throughout history as a recurring punishment. The Mundurucu Indians of Brazil prescribed gang rape for any woman who spied on the sacred musical instruments used by men. Missourians gang-raped Mormon women in driving the sect out of the state...
...stirred up a summer storm of old-fashioned indignation. Dr. W.A. Criswell, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Dallas, the largest Southern Baptist congregation, declared himself "aghast" and added: "I cannot think that the First Lady of this land would descend to such a gutter type of mentality." Mormon Elder Gordon B. Hinckley called a press conference to support "chastity before marriage and fidelity after marriage." New York's Governor Hugh Carey, a Roman Catholic with twelve children, unctuously observed: "I guess I believe, in the words that Frankie [Sinatra] sings, 'Love and marriage go together like...
Udall believes that his Southwest upbringing will be a campaign asset. Mo's grandfather David King was a Mormon pioneer who moved from Utah to Arizona in 1880. Mo's father Levi became chief justice of the Arizona Supreme Court and created a political base for his family that now rivals the power of the Goldwater clan...
Morris remains a Mormon but not an actively practicing one. Unlike his ancestors, he has married his wives consecutively. He was divorced from his first wife, Patricia Emery, in 1965 after the couple had five children. Three years later, he married a member of his Capitol Hill staff, Ella Royston, whom he aptly nicknamed "Tiger." When he upsets her, Tiger is sure to pounce...
...qualities conspire to make Fresh Meat/Warm Weather quietly unique among current women's fiction: its heroine's refusal to bow before the litany of contemporary women's frustrations, and her discovery of the strength that derived from the Mormon heritage that once bound and choked...