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...Arabian Nights, a genie made the mistake of climbing back into his bottle and a fisherman clamped a cork on him. Vienna's police department feels that climbing into a bottle is likely to create grave "danger to personal and public health." Rudolph Schmidt, a carnival stunt man from Bad Hall, holds quite an opposite view. A self-made genie who calls himself the Hindu Fakir Rayo, Rudolph insists that a year spent inside a bottle can provide science with some valuable lessons in controlled diet. It will also, he hopes, attract a sizable crowd of sightseers...
...sands they lived on, for such is the law of the Koran. Then the infidels came to tap the oil, and brought with them the other liquid. Soon the clink of glass against bottleneck began to be heard in the new man-made oases of the Saudi Arabian desert...
Running Out. By last week not a drop of gin or beer was available in the country. The last remaining supplies of whisky were being doled out to Arabian-American Oil Co. workers at the rate of three bottles a month. Twenty Aramco workers had already quit, and more were threatening to, unless the company could persuade the King to repeal prohibition. But Ibn Saud gave no sign of giving in. There were even rumors that he is planning, soon to forbid Aramco's foreign women to walk the streets unveiled...
Adventurous doctors could make a good guess that the job would take them to a Mohammedan court,, somewhere on the dry but oil-rich Arabian peninsula. By week's end, six well-qualified couples had applied...
Over the Hurdles. To help design the line, he got the world's pipeline king, 68-year-old Burt Hull, who built both the Inches and Trans-Arabian's 1,068-mile desert pipeline, "Tapline" (TIME, Nov. 20, 1950). He brought in as president of U.S. Pipe Line Jersey Standard's ex-vice president Robert Haslam. Months were spent in drawing the complex plans, months more in getting O.K.s from Justice, the National Production Authority, Petroleum Administration for Defense and all the Government bureaus involved. With that approval last week, durable Paul Ryan has hurdled...