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...break was executed with all the attention to detail and derring-do of a commando raid. Early one evening last week, two well-dressed young men called at the home of Billy Rial Castillo, 30, a Mormon missionary who lives across the street from Montevideo's Punta Carreta federal prison. "We are Tupamaros," said the men as they pulled out pistols and identified themselves as members of the urban guerrilla group that has served as a model for terrorists in many of the world's major cities. "We need this house for an operation." The operation...
...Little more than an artless potboiler," criticized the newspaper of Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, after viewing Film Producer Stanley Kramer's Bless the Beasts and Children. The Mormon Church, which operates the school, was more critical. It banned the film, objecting to its strong language and shots of youngsters urinating and masturbating. Kramer took an ad in the Salt Lake City Tribune, accused the Mormons of trying to "block out ideas and the right of discussion," pleaded that his film merely has things to say about gun control and killing. "Some," read Kramer's ad, "have...
...garage at the age of five. This season he belted his way to a second-place finish in the Masters and third in the Jacksonville Open; currently, he is among the top 20 money winners, with 1971 earnings, so far, of $55,849. An elder in the Mormon Church, he attended Brigham Young University but quit before graduating to join the tour in 1969. "A college degree," he explains, "is not going to help you sink those two-footers...
...middle of San Francisco Bay. The act was meant to focus attention on the central tragedy of Indian history, the usurpation of their lands, and for a time it did just that. Then public attention began to dwindle-and so did the number of Indian squatters. TIME Correspondent William Mormon visited the remnant. His report...
...Nixon wants Connally to do in Washington is probably not to make economic policy anyway, especially at this notably difficult time for the economy (see BUSINESS). Instead, Connally should serve him well as a far more forceful defender of that policy before Congress than was David Kennedy, a guileless Mormon who will move to a Cabinet-level job in international finance at the State Department. In terms of economic ideology, Connally is an enigma: he recently observed that the Administration's attack on inflation could not succeed without wage and price controls, but he has not said what...