Word: arabian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thanks to Rattigan's theatrical flair and the lacerating honesty of John Mills's portrayal of Lawrence, the play carries one along with its promise of some ultimate disclosure of character. The central illusion holds: this could be Lawrence, this could be the Arabian desert. The high-noon blaze of Motley's desert scenes evokes a sandy inferno stretching to infinity, a landscape without perspective in which a man might take himself for a god. By contrast, the R.A.F. barracks are squatty, cramped, mind-dwarfing. But at play's end, this portrait of a hero turns...
...even Allah has been there,'' Bedouin shepherds warned Arabian American Oil Co. Geologist Thomas C. Barger when he began to explore the waterless wastes of Saudi Arabia's Rub Al Khali in 1938. But for four years Tom Barger tramped for oil and mapped Rub Al Khali's shifting sands in 130° heat, making lifelong friends of sheiks and shepherds, princes and kings. Mastering Arabic, he began to handle Aramco's negotiations with King Ibn Saud's government, was named an Aramco vice president in 1958, president in 1959. Last week in Dhahran...
Internationally, the Imam has proved nearly as dexterous, proclaiming a "great balance" program of "grateful acceptance of aid without strings from both East and West." He has watched delightedly while Russia, Red China and the U.S. fought to be the first to lead Yemen out of the Arabian night. Last week Russia's Merchant Marine Minister Viktor Bakaev ar rived in Yemen to put Moscow temporarily in the lead. His task: to hand over a $15 million Red Sea port built by Russia...
JAPANESE OILMEN will get no concessions in their home market from the Japanese government. The home-owned Arabian Oil Co. will not be allowed to pay for its imports with local yen, will have to pay in hard-to-get foreign currencies...
...move their cars. The first question a buyer now asks when he walks into a showroom is: How much below list can I get it for? Result: haggling is in its heyday. Sighs E.C. McAllister, head of his own Mercury-Comet agency in Dallas: "It's like an Arabian bazaar...