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...bill is filled with two or three musical turns, a guest comic's bit or a mildly satirical skit, and-best of all-engaging conversations with guests who range in celebrity from Vice President Hubert Humphrey to people who are merely interesting-an Australian stowaway, a clearly spurious seer, a subway conductor turned poet...
...gone up in each of his three gubernatorial campaigns. Williams also believes that "the doctrine will be changed, and in my lifetime." The problem is that Mormon belief cannot be redefined by convention or popular vote but only by a direct revelation from God to the President, Prophet and Seer of the church. Although he insists that most Mormons are not prejudiced against Negroes, President McKay has declared that he sees no possibility of a new revelation on the teaching. McKay's probable successor, Joseph Fielding Smith, 90, president of the Council of the Twelve Apostles, has also said...
...also a seer in matters of the 13-year-old heart-and a more vulnerable one than Fullie's never fluttered. A dozen times a day she throws herself at the mercy of a savage sisterhood of judges -those" of her peers who have learned the power of group opinion and the perils of deviating from its cast-iron conventions. Whenever camp life becomes unbearable, she loses herself during a stalk and pretends that she is accompanied by a friendly unicorn, the traditional symbol of virginity. By the end of camp, she has found and kept a friend...
...courtship began in 1895, but it was an unhurried affair, and the two weren't wed until 1901. Still, that left plenty of time for togetherness. Last week David Oman McKay, 93, President, Prophet and Seer of 2,555,000 Mormons, celebrated his 66th wedding anniversary with his wife, Emma Ray Riggs McKay, 89. Rising as usual at 5 a.m. in his Salt Lake City apartment, McKay dictated letters and held his daily conference with the Mormon Counsellors, later joined his wife for a quiet party with their four sons and two daughters and a ride...
...Makarios of Southeast Asia"?though he is far more retiring and ascetic than Makarios. One of his Buddhist rivals insists that he is an anarchist. The Catholics are certain that he is a Communist. He has been variously described as a demagogue, a saint, a puppetmaster, a seer and "the mad monk...