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...past, few gentiles (as the Saints call all non-Mormons) would have had a good word to say about one of the prophets, for non-Mormons have often been treated harshly. McKay (rhymes with eye) has actively encouraged toleration for others. He has also relaxed a few of the stiff rules that govern the life of his followers New converts, for example, no longer have to give up smoking-although they are often assigned to jobs as Boy Scout leaders or Sunday school teachers, where the need to give good example constrains them to abandon the habit voluntarily...
...Bargain. Though off relief, the new cabbies decided to keep on with their schooling. For a model they can look to Hilliard's star pupil. Laborer William Rhymes, 53. jobless since 1959. who recently outshone hundreds of rivals in a stiff exam for high school entrance. Now he aims to earn a diploma in three years. "No kid of mine is ever going to drop out of school," vows Rhymes. That's saying...
...seeking "to befuddle the Cuban people and mentally disarm them." The paper urged a "headon" confrontation with the U.S. instead of a "barter" of Communist principles. Next day. Red Flag, official organ of the Chinese Central Committee, taunted Khrushchev with the accusation that "the modern revisionists are scared stiff of the 'policy of strength' of U.S. imperialism...
Moments later, Tayler ripped through the left side of the Brown line, stiff-armed a would-be tackier at the Bruin five, and stopped into the end zone for the second of his four tallies...
...equipment that should pump close to $300 million a year back into industry and allow it to compete on better terms with European manufacturers. Exports, which have not risen in the last three months, are helped indirectly by the biggest cut ever made in the government's stiff sales tax on autos: the new tax, slashed from 45% to 25% of a car's value,* will save consumers close to $300 on an average medium-sized model, and increase production in a key export industry whose health directly affects many other segments of the economy. Consumer spending...