Word: utah
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brings emotional and then physical deterioration. Boston Irishmen, he notes, have a far higher coronary death rate than their brothers left behind in the more closely knit culture of the old sod. Nevada, a freewheeling singles-oriented state, has a higher rate of death from heart disease than neighboring Utah, with its Mormon tradition of close family ties. One study showed that in Roseto, an Italian American community in Pennsylvania, there were only one-third as many heart attacks as in culturally diversified surrounding towns. The study's conclusion: unusually close family and community ties in this town helped...
Within 30 months of the raid, at least ten other opponents of Ervil's new church had either disappeared or were found dead. Among those missing are an Ensenada woman who sided with Joel LeBaron's sect rather than Ervil's, and Utah Polygamist Robert Hunt Simons, whose disappearance came after his wife and a daughter refused to move in with LeBaron. Shot and killed in National City, Calif., was 7-ft. Dean Grover Vest, a follower of Ervil LeBaron's who had begun saying he could do without...
...latest of the suspected LeBaron victims was Rulon C. Allred, leader of 2,000 polygamists in Utah, Montana and Mexico. On May 10, two young people, who appeared to be women, rushed into Allred's suburban Salt Lake City office and shot him six times. Allred's transgression: he had failed to submit to the disciplines of LeBaron's church...
...imposing (6ft. 4-in.), darkly handsome man, seems almost totally obsessed by his religion. Rather than accept his brother Joel's view of a charitable, merciful Christ, Ervil bases his belief on a preference for the wrathful God of the Old Testament. Says Polygamist Harold Blackmore of Utah: "He's always preaching this blood and thunder stuff-you know, if people don't live the civil law [of Ervil's God], cut their heads off. He is very pugnacious, but is also a smooth-tongued type." Residents of the Mexican villages where LeBaron has been hiding...
...list of big deals announced over the past twelve months includes the largest U.S. merger ever: General Electric's $2 billion purchase of Utah International, a company that mines coal and copper. Two other huge mergers: Mobil Oil's $1 billion acquisition of Marcor, the company that owns the Montgomery Ward department stores, and Atlantic-Richfield's $700 million buy-out of Anaconda, the copper-mining giant. Right now, Gulf Oil has offered $440 million for Kewanee Industries, an independent oil and gas producer; PepsiCo has bid $315 million in stock for Pizza Hut, a chain...