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Show his religion is the key to the man. If he does something unusual, you can be pretty sure he's just doing what the Book of Mormon says," the article states. Commenting on the Romney family, Alsop describes Mrs. Romney as a woman of great charm, and, like the four attractive attrac-tive Romney children, she certainly cer-tainly will be a major political asset. Writer Sees Romney As Choice of GOP "George Romney, prophet of the compact car, Mormon church leader and Republican candidate for governor of Michigan, is a most unusual politician. He is more than that. He is about as remarkable a political phenomenon phenom-enon as has appeared on the American scene in a couple of decades," observes Stewart Alsop, Al-sop, national afafirs editor of THE SATURDAY EVENING POST. Alsop gives his analysis of Romney's political future in the May 26th issue of the POST. "My guess is that, if George Romney is elected Governor of Michigan and no new face suddenly emerges to fill the Republican vacuum, the odds actually favor his getting the Republican presidential presi-dential nomination say, six to five." Considerable comment is given in the article to Romney's Mormon Mor-mon background. At the age of five, he and his parents left Mexico with Mormon settlers who were chased out by Pancho Villa. Thereafter, he grew up in Idaho and Utah. In 1927, at age twenty, he went to England and Scotland to spend two years preaching his Mormon faith. "The more you see of George Romney, the more you realize |