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Tears on the Air. A frugal patriarch who kept only one wife and one Cadillac, Sheik Abdullah became a sugar daddy to other Arab nations by financing their projects with giant loans ($470 million last year). So it was that when he died at 70 last week from congestive heart failure, that much of the Arab world joined in Kuwait's mourning...
...Happy Pappies. As they demonstrated the blessings of the poverty program, other local residents-mostly the pappies' wives and small children-harvested potatoes behind a mule-drawn plow on Will Handshoe's land beside Upper Quicksand Creek. Will, 72, who is distant kin to Floyd and unchallenged patriarch of the valley, had foresightedly taken the day off to go squirrel hunting...
Celebrating his 79th birthday last week, with his famed burning-bush hair do newly cropped, the patriarch of modern Israel lounged on the lawn in front of his prefabricated house at the Sde Boker kibbutz in the Negev. He accepted gifts of gladioli, roses and wine, together with the traditional Jewish greeting, "You should live to be 120!" "Is that all?" joked David Ben-Gurion...
...conflicting demands while he struggled to establish his own style as Pope, Paul has created a record that so far shows as many hits as misses, as many half-starts as firm conclusions. He carried on John's interest in ecumenism, notably by his meeting in Jerusalem with Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras. But he also disturbed Protestants by the "return to Rome" implications of his 1964 encyclical Ecclesiam Suam (His Church). One of his most premising innovations was a new Secretariat for non-Christian religions; but Paul entrusted the project to a Curia professional, Paolo Cardinal Marella, and almost nothing...
Died. Percy Hamilton Clark, 91, patriarch of the Philadelphia Main Line Clarks, uncle of Pennsylvania's Democratic Senator Joseph S. Clark and father of New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller's exwife, Mary Todhunter Clark, himself a lawyer and former senior partner of Clark, Spahr, Eichman & Yardley; of a heart attack; in Villanova...