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Benjamin Shwadran, editor of the scholarly magazine Middle Eastern Affairs, offers the best documented analysis to date of how the government's 50-50 share of oil profits has been lavished on a Saudi Arabian Nights...
Last year, 20 years after old Ibn Saud brought in U.S. oilmen and the golden flood began to spout out of the Arabian American Oil Co.'s wells, the government received an income in royalties and taxes of about $200 million-and managed to spend it all and $50 million besides. Since World War II, according to Shwadran's calculations, the King of Saudi Arabia has run through $1.4 billion paid him by the oil companies...
...resplendent highlight of Long Island's summer social season, widening Automogul Henry Ford II and his petite wife Anne, togged for a make-believe Arabian night, met up with tall-on-the-camel Cinemactor Gary (Beau Geste) Cooper at a Baghdad ball in Southampton. For his resemblance to a sheik on his way to a shower bath, Arabian Knight Cooper copped first prize in the men's division for his getup's elegant authenticity...
None of the U.S. breeds springs from native stock. The prehistoric horse, struck by disasters still unknown, was extinct in North America 300 centuries before Co lumbus. It was the great navigator him self who brought the first 25 horses, probably of Arabian ancestry, to the New World, landing at Santo Domingo on his second voyage in 1493. The Indians, terrified by the strange beasts, were easily routed. Later, the western Indians caught on, stole horses from Spanish conquerors, rode and bred them for war and hunting...
...Horse Age. After the arrival of the English colonists, tidewater Virginia became the prime breeding ground for fine horses and fox-hunting cavaliers. Like most plantation owners, George Washing ton built a big stable (130 horses) and a reputation as a breeder, once raced his Arabian thoroughbred Magnolia against a roan colt owned by Thomas Jefferson at Alexandria's Jockey Club. (Magnolia lost.) From New England came the fast little Narragansett pacer (one was ridden by Paul Revere) and the Morgan horse whose progeny, crossbred with other strains, produced every type from draft horses to racing trotters...