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John Weisbrod V had always worshipped John Weisbrod IV, and the elder Weisbrod had always encouraged the younger's interest in hockey. It was Weisbrod IV who bought season tickets to the beloved Rangers and the hated Islanders...
...carver sits on a tatami mat, his workbench and tools covered with a fine ivory dust. In his hands is an ivory figurine of the Merciful Mother Kannon, which he has been carving for a month. Beside him sits his son Ryusei, 37, a fourth-generation ivory carver. The elder Kawaguchi is a gentle man with a reverence for the gleaming white medium he has spent his lifetime bringing to life. His eyes are weak from the strain of the work. Only in the stillness of night does he carve the delicate faces. When he fashions the eyes, the nose...
...Botha, unleashed disappointment and nearly three years of violent unrest before grinding to a halt. But one of the most vocal critics of De Klerk's reluctance to abolish apartheid is a prominent Afrikaner who sat only a few feet behind him on inauguration day last month: his elder brother Willem...
Gumption or no, skeptics perceive an Oedipal element behind the enterprise. After joining the small-paper business launched by his father, the younger Ingersoll clashed with him early and often, tried to break free, then forced him out of the partnership in a financial settlement that the elder Ingersoll considered unfair. Thereafter, father and son spoke infrequently. Ingersoll blames the tension largely on his stepmother; at his father's funeral in 1985, the widow and the namesake son held separate receptions...
...elder Hwang, by then a C.P.A., launched Far East National Bank, which specialized in loans to Asian immigrants and which now has four branches in California. Two years after the bank opened, he was kidnaped for ransom, then released within a few hours after the money was taken. Says the son: "I was in college at the time and did not hear about it until the crisis was over. The case was never solved, and some people have suggested that my father staged the episode as a publicity stunt. My father may be a little weird...