Word: patriarchates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what has been lost in the passing of a stable old way of life-and what was gained and not gained by the new. This equation is viewed with neither regret nor reproach. The story is principally told through its varied, vivid characters. Reb Meshulam Moskat is a patriarch with a talent for victory, who manages his business and his family with a high, old-fashioned hand. But not without opposition. "I spin and I spin and nothing comes of it. I've had two wives, seven children, given out dowries, supported sons-in-law. It's cost...
...chiefs, who are the leaders of rural tribes but have little following in the cities, stood up to attack British insistence on dealing with black nationalist politicians instead of "the true leaders of the people, the chiefs." Britain has meddled too long in Rhodesian affairs, said one red-robed patriarch: "We want our independence now-tonight, at 5 o'clock...
Died. Billy Bowlegs III, 103, patriarch of Florida's 1,500 surviving Seminole Indians, whose stories of the old warrior days and Everglade hunter's skill (nine deer in a single day) made him both a prime source for historians and a favorite guide for such sportsmen as Henry Ford and Thomas Edison; on the reservation near Brighton...
Divorced. Lauritz Melchior, 74, retired patriarch of Wagnerian tenors; by Mary Markham, 40, once his secretary, now a top Hollywood booking agent, whom he married last May, 15 months after the death of his second wife; on grounds of extreme mental cruelty; in Santa Monica, Calif. Settlement: $20,000 in cash, with another $80,000 to follow upon Melchior's death...
...native southerner, may well intend to rally his forces in the south and try to repeat his successful 1960 march on the capital. As for the Sananikones, with Kouprasith in control of Vientiane, they obviously hope some day to be strong enough to depose Souvanna Phouma and make Patriarch Phoui Sananikone once more Premier of Laos...