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...Daily Times when he bought the New York Times in 1896 for $75,000. The Daily Times editor, Martin Ochs, 34, is his grandnephew; Publisher Golden is the son-in-law of Times Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger, who in turn, is a son-in-law of the patriarch...
...late," cried ex-Premier Saeb Salam from his barricaded mansion in Beirut's Moslem quarter. Two days later street fighting broke out again; an estimated five persons were killed in Beirut and Tripoli. Next day His Beatitude Paul Meouchi, onetime Los Angeles parish priest who is now patriarch of the Maronite Roman Catholic sect to which Chamoun and most Lebanese Christians belong, said in a press conference that the President should "take a trip" abroad and turn over power to Army Chief Brigadier General Fuad Shehab. Otherwise, he warned, the half-Christian, half-Moslem republic of Lebanon might...
...applied in a test case; Charlottesville, Norfolk and Newport News face similar orders. The result is to pit the power of the federal courts against the elaborate machinery of "massive resistance" enacted in 1956 and 1957 by the Virginia legislature under the spur of the state's political patriarch, Senator Harry Flood Byrd...
Died. Benjamin Franklin White, 85, patriarch of harness racing, only four-time winner of trotting's highest honor, the Hambletonian; in Orlando, Fla. Ontario-born Ben White started wintering horses in Florida during the '205, founded Orlando's municipally owned Ben White Raceway, harness racing's winter-training capital...
...Smith's history of the first inhabitants of America, some of the white-skinned, "delightsome" members of the Israelite tribe of Lehi grow quarrelsome and sinful after arriving in America from Israel. Result: they turn dark-skinned and "loathsome," thereby producing the American Indians. A patriarch named Hagoth builds a boat, sails away into the Pacific and is never heard of again. Many Mormons presume that Hagoth's descendants are today's Pacific islanders...