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Professional Polish. The 128 years since Founder Smith formally organized the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have witnessed a triumphant march of Mormonism through bloody persecutions (Smith himself was killed by a mob in Carthage, Ill.) to a present pinnacle of prosperity and respectable good will. Today the Mormons, with headquarters in Salt Lake City, own canneries, insurance companies, banks, number among their ruling Twelve Apostles a U.S. Cabinet officer (Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Benson). Members in good standing donate a tenth of their incomes to the church. Five thousand missionaries from...
...Californians: Robert Alcock, George S. Colley Jr., senior vice president of Bechtel Corp. of San Francisco, and Eugene Burns, former A.P. correspondent. The truck drove slowly through milling streets. In front of the ministry gates the truck was trapped by a stalled vehicle in front of it, and the mob attacked...
...Hashim, the Arab Union's Deputy Premier, who was sitting beside me, died from a stone hit in the head. Everyone who was pulled down was cut to bits. I saw a young German or Swiss of about 30 grabbed by the head and pulled down by the mob. About eight people started slashing and stabbing him and beating him with rods. Then they cut off his head. I did not see the death of the American, Burns, but later, one of our people told me he was pulled down and killed like the others. You just cannot imagine...
Venezuela came alarmingly close to mob rule last week as ambitious leftist politicians dreamed up an army plot and then loudly put it down with windy proclamations, mass rallies and a general strike. Through three days of crisis, the booming Communist Party played a talented leading role. But conservative military leaders with no plot in mind, kept their tempers down and their tanks in camp and avoided civil...
Admiral Larrazábal turned the army down cold. The Cabinet, minus Castro León, hurried down Mount Avila to confer under the protective shadow of navy ships commanded by Larrazábal's brother Carlos. In Caracas, a well-organized mob of 20,000 leftists marched into downtown Plaza Silencio with pistols, lead pipes and machetes to shout curses at the "dirty militarists" and, for good measure, "the Yankee imperialist dogs...