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...thermos bottles. Others line up at the office water-coolers with the chalky powder* and mix their lunch in a paper cup. Drugstores serve the stuff across the soda fountains, and manufacturers are even shipping it ready-mixed in handy cans. Metrecal distributors have filled orders from Saudi Arabian royalty and the King of Greece. The well-heeled businessmen who dine at Denver's Twenty-Six Club drink it; so do the spring-training players of the Birmingham Barons. Food Editor Marjorie Barrett of Denver's Rocky Mountain News wrote about her Metrecal diet, soon became the spiritual...
...Sabres of Paradise, by Lesley Blanch. A true Arabian Nights tale of 19th century Russia's subjugation of unruly Caucasus tribesmen, replete with high-bouncing feats of battlefield and seraglio...
...SAUDI ARABIAN LOANS of up to $100 million, payable within 25 years at 8% interest, may be made to Japa nese companies to develop Japanese industry. Offer by oil-rich Saudi Osmar Trading Co. is a curious turnabout, since Saudi Arabia itself is still an underdeveloped nation...
...revenues flow from oil royalties. Although Mideast production is up 13% this year, the Arab nations expect heavy revenue losses from the cuts; Iraq says it will lose about $20 million, and Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Iran, being bigger producers, will lose even more. Cried Sheik Abdullah Tariki, Saudi Arabian director of petroleum and mineral affairs: "It is a plot by the oil companies, not even remotely justified by the Russian challenge." When the Arab Petroleum Congress meets in Beirut in October, it is expected to press for a bigger share of the profits, move ahead with its own program...
...country on wheels for the first time. Today every nation wants its own oil industry and is determined to have it. Mindful of the oil wealth of the Arab sheiks, all countries suddenly see oil as the key that will open to their treasuries the fabulous riches of the Arabian nights...