Word: patriarchalism
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...claim that his union was discriminating against its Negro and Puerto Rican members was too much for David Dubinsky, 70, president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union for the past three decades, and white-haired patriarch of New York's Liberal Party. Before a House subcommittee investigating the charge of racism against the I.L.G.W.U., Dubinsky admitted that proportionately few of the 100,000 Negro and Puerto Rican members of his 450,000-man union have become part of the hierarchy. He explained that they were still gaining necessary experience at lower levels...
...world, while abbots governed dukedoms the size of Rhode Island. Since then, temporal authority among religious leaders has mostly gone out of style. Last week a cleric who still has much civic influence arrived for a six-week visit in the U.S.: His Beatitude Paul Peter Meouchi, 68, Patriarch of Antioch and all the East...
...Meouchi's, and Syria's President Nazem El-Koudsi phones him often from Damascus. No Middle Eastern statesman of any faith would think of visiting Lebanon without stopping in at his yellow stone palace at Bkerki, near Beirut. "We are everybody's father," says the patriarch...
Ambitions & Tensions. The nature of his ecclesiastical position and the history of his tiny country (4,015 sq. mi., 1,600,000 pop.) necessarily make Patriarch Meouchi a political figure. A proud mountain people who preserved their Christian faith through centuries of Arab persecution, the Maronites regard the patriarchy as a symbol of their national ambitions...
Died. Somdej Pra Ariyawongsakhatayana (means Nobly descended and accomplished in intelligence), 74, Supreme Patriarch of Thailand, spiritual leader of 25 million Thai Buddhists, who in 1961 became the first Patriarch to visit the U.S.; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Bangkok...