Word: provos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strong advocate of Negro civil rights. Many younger Mormons believe that the church has no choice but to open up the priesthood to the Negro. "The change will come, and within my lifetime," says Dr. J. D. Williams, 37, a professor of political science and former bishop of the Provo stake (diocese). "The Mormon liberal has for years felt a deep uneasiness over his church's doctrine that Negroes are not worthy to hold the priesthood." And he fully anticipates that the central feature of Mormonism -continuous revelation-will provide...
...MARVIN N. NELSON Provo, Utah...
When the football players at Brigham Young University, a big Mormon school in Provo, Utah, huddle before the game, they do not pray for victory. "We just pray," says a player wryly, "that we'll come out in one piece." For 21 seasons, the toothless Cougars were the pussycats of the Skyline Conference, winning only 69 of 203 games against such middling opposition as Wyoming, Montana, Utah State. B.Y.U. now belongs to the new Western Athletic Conference, and with only three victories in nine games, it is still the weakling of its league. But this season, the Cougars have...
...says, learned the deadly, lightning-fast ballet in his native Honolulu in order to avoid getting into fights with friends who taunted him because he did not drink or smoke. After serving a Coast Guard hitch during the Korean War and graduating from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, he moved to Pasadena, opened his first karate studio four years ago, started a second in January. He frowns upon any ostentatious use of karate, prefers to ram his fist through ten corrugated roof tiles in the privacy of his studio...