Word: provo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...million over 20 years. All of the line's 14,000 employees, from president to gandy dancers, will be invited to buy shares in the new company in amounts ranging from $500 to $100,000, depending on salary. The North Western line's president, Larry S. Provo, 43, a longtime Heineman associate, has also become president of the employee company. Provo has great expectations for a jump in productivity when employees become stockholders. "There are a helluva lot of people working unsupervised on our 11,500 miles of track," he says. "If they feel the railroad...
Sporting pointed hats and led by ex-Provo Leader Roel van Duijn, 27, a bearded anarchist with a sense of humor, the Pixies established "people's departments" to handle a whole range of services. To protest air pollution, the Pixies' Environment Department stopped traffic by staging smiling street sit-ins -but only on Saturday afternoons when families go shopping in their cars. They introduced cartop flower boxes to beautify parking lots. Their Housing Department seized empty buildings, scrubbed them clean and opened them to some of the city's 15,000 homeless. They organized...
Harvard swimming coach Bill Brooks was awarded a plaque Wednesday night in Provo. Utah, for the "fellowship to young men he has coached during his last 40 years as a college coach...
Lasa year, Faller and teammate Pat Coleman hitch-hiked to Provo, Utah, for the NCAA tournament after they failed to pass the semifinals at the Easterns...