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Their King, 43-year-old Talal, who left a Swiss mental sanitarium ten months ago to succeed his murdered father, Abdullah (TIME, July 7), had suffered a relapse: his clouded mind had grown worse. He begins the day normally enough, but as the hours pass, he becomes depressed and morbidly suspicious. His mind conjures up fancied plots; the Prime Minister told his solemn audience that the King fires trusted officials for conspiring against him. He beats his servants and even his wife, Queen Zaine, whom he loves. Once when the Queen's brother intervened, King Talal...
Sheppard ("Abdullah") King, who risked his Texas cotton-fortune inheritance by marrying Egyptian Shimmy Dancer Samia Gamal, brought his bride home to Houston to meet Mama for the first time. All went well. Nervous Samia got a hearty hug from her mother-in-law, who said, "I think she's charming...
...weeks ago, Monroe and his snorting machine wer>, to work. Sightseers jammed the roadside like county fair crowds. Enterprising merchants set up soda-pop stands and rented chairs to the sidewalk superintendents. King Talal himself, 43-year-old successor to the late King Abdullah, heard of the excitement, dropped down to watch, and was taken for a ride. Next day, bursting with pride, he insisted that Syria's visiting bosses Shishekly and Selo, who have so far turned a cold shoulder to Point Four aid, come and have a look. Ten days later, Monroe had pushed the mountain...
...Ismay was born in India, and raised to be a soldier. After Sandhurst, he served in the Punjab, and in World War I successfully led a camel corps in Somaliland against the fanatical forces of the "Mad Mullah" Mohammed Ibn Abdullah. Churchill first saw and admired Ismay during England's near-revolutionary general strike in 1926. Ismay, then on the Imperial Defense Committee, called out the territorial army to help put the strike down. Churchill signaled him to his side when he became Prime Minister...
...Saud's heir apparent, 50-year-old Saud, has little of his father's old forcefulness and guile. He needs both badly, for he has enemies as far as one can see across the Arabian sand and jebel. Finance Minister Abdullah Al-Soliman, trusted confidant of the King and the most powerful man in the country outside the royal family, would rather see 46-year-old Foreign Minister Feisal, Ibn Saud's second son, succeed to the throne. So would the British...