Word: utah
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...notable exception: the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Book of Mormon teaches that the colored races are descendants of the evil children of Laman and Lemuel, who impiously warred against the good children of Nephi and received their pigmented skin as punishment. Last week a Utah State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights drew on this Mormon scripture in a scathing report on the state of the tiny nonwhite minority in Utah...
Also elected were Andrew L. Griffin, of Kirkland House and Portland, Ore., English; Julius B. Levine, of Winthrop House and Waterville, Me., Economics; Stephen Lichtenbaum, of Eliot House and Brooklyn, N.Y., Mathematics; Charles W. Maynes Jr. of Adams House and Salt Lake City, Utah, History; and Edward B. Segel, of Adams House and Everett, History...
Back in the U.S., Romney spent a year at the University of Utah before heading for Washington in search of a job-and Lenore, who had moved there when her father took a Government job. Romney was hired by Massachusetts' Democratic Senator David I. Walsh as a speedwriter. When his speedwriting turned out to lack speed, Walsh kept him on anyway, put him to work keeping track of legislative matters...
GEORGE D. CLYDE Governor of Utah Salt Lake City
...said in a note) not to return till he made good. A week later police found him in Salt Lake City, barefoot, hungry and broke. He had started out with $15, the last $2 of which someone had stolen from him while he was sleeping on a lawn in Utah. Bitterly, "Pat" Knopf noted that only truck drivers had helped him ("The rest of the people are a bunch of damned snobs") in his hitchhike attempt to reach Reno, where he "knew a lot of rich people" and hoped to get started...