Word: utah
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...long and frequently dishonorable history of persecuting its citizens who hold unpopular opinions. The record reaches back past the Joseph McCarthy era to Sacco and Vanzetti, the Palmer raids, the Wobblies, and the Haymarket trial of 1887. There is also the ambiguous case of the Utah Mormons, who were persecuted in the late 19th century for the "crime" of practicing polygamy, then a canon of their faith. In a certain sense, those Latter-day Saints arrested for refusing to divorce their several wives could be regarded as "political" prisoners...
...Little more than an artless potboiler," criticized the newspaper of Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, after viewing Film Producer Stanley Kramer's Bless the Beasts and Children. The Mormon Church, which operates the school, was more critical. It banned the film, objecting to its strong language and shots of youngsters urinating and masturbating. Kramer took an ad in the Salt Lake City Tribune, accused the Mormons of trying to "block out ideas and the right of discussion," pleaded that his film merely has things to say about gun control and killing. "Some," read Kramer's ad, "have...
...final decision, it was suggested amid some hilarity at Lindsay's press conference, came on a Utah mountaintop. Vacationing with his wife earlier this month, he telephoned Deputy Mayor Richard Aurelio from a riding stable and, the story goes, dictated the substance of his announcement. Actually, a very similar draft of the speech had been prepared by his staff weeks earlier...
...eagles turned out to be all too true. Not only had 770 golden and bald eagles been killed in Wyoming, but they had been shot in the least sportsmanlike way of all-from helicopters. Testifying before a Senate subcommittee, James Vogan, a balding, heavy-set helicopter pilot from Murray, Utah, told how he had ferried sharpshooters and so-called "sportsmen" over ranches in Colorado and Wyoming to "sluice" the eagles. Sluicing is what Westerners call the unsporting act of shooting sitting ducks, or eagles. Vogan also said that he knew of $15,000 paid to the flying service that owned...
...rituals of sporting risk. But whereas The Endless Summer has marvelous scenery of rolling seas, On Any Sunday offers only roaring motors. For a very long 95 minutes, Brown unreels footage of racers: surging around a track or scrambling cross-country, gunning their motors to assault a peak in Utah or speeding-a thousand strong -through the Mojave Desert...