Word: arabian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...urge to merge. Their alliance, which a Jordanian diplomat described as a "semi-union," was formed last week after three days of talks between crusty old King Saud, 61, and Jordan's gritty young King Hussein, 26, whose Hashemite grandfather King Abdullah was chased out of the Arabian peninsula in 1919 by Saud's father...
Exports: Bananas, livestock products. Per capita income: $42. U.S. aid (1961): $4,200,000. Somalis of Arabian origin, hope to annex ethnically linked areas of Ethiopia, Kenya, French Somaliland into "Greater Somalia." Strong resistance to Communism...
...high-spirited architecture student in Paris with a Left Bank haircut and a razor-thin purse when the Shah beckoned. After two years on the Peacock Throne, Farah, as Washington discovered during the Shah's U.S. trip in April, is charming, poised, and possessed of an Arabian Nights' ransom in emerald and diamond tiaras, earrings and necklaces. She has plunged energetically into social work, started redecorating the royal palaces and, say court officials, has only to smile to earn another tiara from the impassioned Shah...
...printer) lamented the $2,000-a-month salary he had been promised, Mrs. Felzer fretted over the $10,000 she had paid Chinn Ho as a binder on the big deal. Said Wheeler-Dealer Ho wonderingly: "It's like a fairy story." Echoed Sheraton's Henderson: "An Arabian Nights tale. I have thought of 20 different explanations for all this, but they are all too fantastic for belief." The only unfazed veteran of the episode was Sammy Amalu, who confidently announced that he planned to 1) raise his $6,500 bail; 2) beat the bad check...
...From the Arabian Sea to the Bay of Bengal, from tropical Madras to the freezing Himalayas, election fever was rising last week in India. Government printing presses rolled around the clock turning out ballots for 210 million eligible voters (all citizens over 21). About 125 million of them-more than the populations of England, France, Canada and Australia-are expected to go to the polls this month in the biggest free election in the world. Voting in most states will last a week beginning Feb. 18; returns from six snowbound constituencies in the north will not be in until April...