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Show Tiie Missionary olC le oi R George omney II r surly crowd jostled jibout in the A street i castle that below Edinburgh's grim spring day in 1927. The liniirlirtKH Sottish heckler and his prey, a young Mormon street preacpr from America II named George Wilcken Romney. The heckler was moving in for the kill. "Hey, Yank, what do you mean here?" he barked as he waved one of the pamphlets the youth had given Saints. out explaining his Church of Latter-Da- y It says Christ was bora'of Jenisalem,Land every bloke knows Christ was born in Bethlehem." The question caught' young Romney unprepared. As he fumbled for an answer, the heckler, an did hand at baiting street-corn- er preachers, shouted: 'The Yank who wrote this book was pretty cockeyed." The crowd laughed. The young missionary' clenched bis fists and tried to reply, but the heckler snapped a rude remark about Mormon polygamy and swaggered off to attack another street speaker. The crowd moved on. Romney's face was grim. "What right do I Jiave to preach if I can't answer questions about 'V said- - toelfpiifdTk- - :'- - The rest of the afternoon and evening, the distraught young man sat in the city library searching for an answer to the heckler's question. Finally, he discovered "of meant "close to" and that Jerusalem was about three miles from Bethlehem. .When the library closed, he withdrew all the books he could on religion and took them to his lodgings. "In a few weeks, the Edinburgh hecklers realized there weren't many questions, they could stump me on," George Romney recalled recently. "I was ready to outtalk anyone." , This booming confidence in his ability to out-tal- k or outsell anybody on something he believes in has carried Romney a long way. He took over American Motors, which lost $19 million in 1956, V 7 h ' - - t - I 34:te.peai4' - J I "' and;lilted ita.:earnings.to $0 miUtakthree ytarr-later. As Michigan's recent Republican gubernatorial candidate, he ran a whirlwind campaign which ended 14 years of Democratic rule in the state and shot his name into the limelight as one of the most exciting new figures in politics. i lie Acts to Serve Cod end Gcciaty To understand Romney, you must begin with his religion. He handles problems in the Mormon way, which he calls "prayerful consideration." Keep, an eye on Michigan's new governor; he's pursuing politics with the same zeal that made him a wizard of industry and a leader of the Mormon Church By MARYA SAUNDERS and BOB GAINES Family Weekty, Marth , ISO ' studied all sides of the problenthen f asted arid prayed for 24 hours. When he emerged from his room, he announced to his wife: "I've decided. I'm going to be governor of Michigan.": Such an announcement could seem presumptuous; but there is in Romney a humility and burn-rin- g missionary iealto- serve bothtsGodnd society which demands respect. If for no other reason than that it gets results. George was born July 8; 1907,11? Mexico in a Mormon colony that had been established there after the United States declared polygamy illegal in 1885. His grandfather had several wives (by whom he had SO children) and so was forced to flee into Mexico to avoid imprisonment. The Mormon Chureh banned plural marriages in 1890, and George's father, a carjTenteronfmed himself to one wife, who gave him seven children. -- |