UTAH: Nettled Nickel-Nipper

Less than five months after he scored an astonishing political comeback, Salt Lake City's peppery Mayor J. Bracken Lee was beyond doubt the most unpopular man in town last week. University of Utah students hanged him in effigy, crowds booed and hissed him at city commission meetings, both Salt Lake City newspapers rapped him, and irate citizens set up in front of his house a burning cross inscribed, LEE, YOU ARE A FOOL. Reason for the outbursts: Lee had highhandedly fired respected Police Chief W.

Cleon Skousen, 47, FBI veteran and Mormon Sunday-school...

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