Word: utah
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...missionaries over the world bring in multitudes of converts (100,000 last year) to a church once only known and derided for its long-banned polygamy. "The choir makes friends and opens doors," says Richard Condie, 65, choirmaster since 1957 and a professor of music at the University of Utah. He directs 375 singers, divided into four-part men's and four-part women's choruses. All members are adult volunteers, including many housewives, but also four doctors, three lawyers, two bankers and one dentist-plus a glass blower and a hog caller...
...head later take I other woman v who has dump & lt; band, it's certainly going to effect." In Long Island, c Rockefeller territory, Republician governor John Chafee said, " there are small children of hers involved is extremely unfortunate." Added Kent Shearer, energetic Young Republican leader in Utah: "The married women in the 40s and 50s won't have him. Some of them who are lifelong Republicans warn us, 'Don't make us choose between Kennedy and Happy...
...Mormon, Romney already has some presidential support in states with sizable Mormon enclaves-Utah, Idaho, California and, curiously, Hawaii. But Romney's Mormonism can also be a political nobble, particularly in view of the Mormon Church's longstanding refusal to admit Negroes to its hierarchy. Moreover, in most regions, regular Republicans look askance at Romney as one who has stressed his role as a "citizens' candidate" and has seemed somewhat embarrassed by his Republican Party label. Says a veteran Senate Republican: "If he wants to get anywhere, George is going to have to forget that citizen-party garbage." As things...
Midwest & Mountain States. As of now, Goldwater probably would get nearly all the convention votes of Utah, Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Illinois and Indiana. "This guy," says Barry-Booster Frank Whetstone of Cut Bank, Mont., "can sell-and he can win." In California, former Governor Goodwin J. Knight, a Rockefeller man, admits Goldwater gains over Rockefeller in his state, but insists that Barry "couldn't possibly win." Nonetheless, California has a huge assortment of conservatives -from mild to Birch. They are well organized and gave Richard Nixon a tough fight in the gubernatorial primaries last year...
...other two amendments made somewhat more headway. No. 1 passed eleven legislatures: Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Wyoming. Amendment No. 2 passed twelve: Arkansas, Idaho, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wyoming...