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...leadership of the Mormon Church is a self-perpetuating gerontocracy. By tradition, the presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whenever there is a vacancy, falls to the senior member of the church's governing Council of Twelve Apostles. Last week, following tradition, the council "invited, sustained and ordained" Spencer Woolley Kimball, 78, as the church's new president. Kimball thus became the fourth "prophet, seer and revelator" of the Mormons in as many years. President David O. McKay died in 1970 at 96, Joseph Fielding Smith hi 1972 at 95, and Harold...
Senior Apostle. Eisenhower's former Secretary of Agriculture, who is now senior apostle and head of the council, has flustered many Mormons with his abrasive public utterances, some of them to John Birch Society audiences. His benediction at the funeral of President McKay was so heavy with right-wing political overtones as to embarrass even the conservative Mormon hierarchy. Now the divisive Benson is next in the wings, as amiable President Kimball begins his regime...
Kimball's paternal grandfather was one of the original Mormon Twelve Apostles under Joseph Smith. His maternal grandfather was Brigham Young's business manager. His father was a Mormon bishop. The sixth of eleven children, Kimball grew up to become, like so many other Mormon leaders, a successful businessman, running an insurance and realty company in Arizona...
From William Mormon, with Israeli forces in the Sinai...
Father's Faith. Johnny was, in fact, a straight shooter in every way. An elder in the Mormon Church, he did not smoke, drink, overeat or stay up late (and still doesn't today). His lone passion besides golf was fishing and his idea of a hot time was shooting pool with Spiro Agnew at Frank Sinatra's place in Palm Springs. "There's really nothing wrong with messing around," Johnny said, "if that's what you like. But if you don't do it, you certainly have the advantage." He insisted that...