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Droll but proper Boston Lawyer Joseph N. Welch, 65, only star of the Army-McCarthy hearings to emerge an undisputed hero, more recently a TV commentator, was named "Father of the Year" by an amorphous group called the National Father's Day Committee. Patriarch Welch, sire of two sons, reacted with "delighted astonishment...
National Grange (of the Patrons of Husbandry), Washington, D.C. Patriarch of U.S. farm organizations, counting 875,000 members in 37 states, concentrated in the Northeast (Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania and Maine) with large outcroppings in the Pacific Northwest. Master: plainspoken, Indiana-born Herschel D. Newsom, 51. Founded in 1867 as a fraternal lodge for farm families, the Grange still holds to some of its secret rituals, goes in less than the other farm organizations for lobbying. It supported this year's farm bill, but generally stands somewhere between the Farm Bureau and the Farmers Union, favors a commodity...
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Modern History: Cypriots were agitating for enosis or reunion with Greece as early as the 19th century. In 1931 Orthodox priests led a brief revolt, declaring that the Patriarch of Cyprus had proclaimed the end of British rule "because the people will it." Greek Premier Venizelos disowned the revolt, the riots subsided, and two bishops were deported to England...
...conservative, landholding Arcaya family of Venezuela dates back more than four centuries; historians have called their original family seat, a fine colonial residence in Coro, the oldest two-story house in the hemisphere. Snowy-haired patriarch of the family is Pedro Manuel Arcaya, onetime minister to Washington, who at 82 still works in his famed private library (150,000 volumes in ten languages). His sons and nephews are lawyers or professional men, trained in the universities of Spain, Venezuela and the U.S.; his daughters and niece are society figures. One of the lawyers, nephew Ignacio, is also a politician, president...