Word: utah
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...exhortation of the Prophet Micah to do justly, to love mercy, to walk humbly with God'?" A Catholic. President J. P. O'Keefe of Salt Lake City's Chamber of Commerce said: "All of us have been keenly aware of the advantages of living m Utah. And almost all these advantages can be attributed to the leadership of President McKay...
Nearly one-third of the world's 1,800,000 Latter-Day Saints have been baptized since McKay became president in 1951. Much of the growth stems directly from policy decisions he made shortly after taking office. He abandoned the church tradition of urging converts to settle in Utah (We were robbing ourselves of local leadership in the missions") and he authorized the construction abroad of new temples-previously limited to the U.S. and Canada-when membership growth warranted. He made the Mormons' aggressive missionary work more effective by suggesting that convert-makers ask for appointments instead...
Working out of Los Angeles, Phillips has directed an immense task of construction, training and logistical coordination. For the Montana installations, the 54-ft. missiles are flown in C-133 cargo planes from an Air Force plant near Ogden, Utah, to Malmstrom Air Force Base near Great Falls, transferred in an air-conditioned building to 64-ft.-long tractor-trailer vehicles called transporter-erectors (T-E's). These crawl at 15 m.p.h. on level roads, stall to 2 m.p.h. on grades. The 150 silo sites of Malmstrom's 341st Strategic Missile Wing are scattered over...
...appointment of Francis Keppel '38, Dean of the Faculty of Education, as United States Commissioner of Education was announced by President Kennedy on Saturday. The post has been vacant since September, when Sterling M. McMurrin resigned and returned to his former post at the University of Utah...
...begun by his greatgrandfather and regales his children with fairy tales. He longs for spiritual challenge. A Mormon missionary, one of many who came to Iceland in the late 19th century, provides it. The missionary urges him to seek a paradise on the "other side of the moon" in Utah, where great principles are lived out in hardship and suffering: "You must renounce home and family and possessions. That is how to be a Mormon. You must lead your young and rose-cheeked sweetheart out into the wilderness. One day she sinks to the ground of hunger and thirst...