Word: arabian
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...Harris and Fanny Hill because of the value of a particular edition of "The Divine Comedy." Editions that are rather valuable, but not quite valuable enough to ocupy space in the Houghton Rare Book Library, are locked in the "Inferno" to asure protection. Several beautifully-bound volumes of "The Arabian Nights," of Browning, and of Balzac are kept in the Cage for this reason...
However, all the A.M.P.'s feel that meeting men from totally different fields, and gaining new outlooks, is the most valuable part of the program. The statement of Kenneth R. Webster, who's spent most of the past eight years as district manager for the Arabian American Oil Company in Saudi Arabia, pretty well sums it up for the representatives of both foreign and even United States businesses...
...time he was Senator, he was a millionaire, owning at least two houses and two country estates. While President, he quietly built one of the hemisphere's most fabulous mansions at La Chata, near Havana. The place has an air-conditioned barbershop, a zoo, a stable of Arabian horses and a swimming pool with a small waterfall on one side and a dining terrace, bar, and kitchen on the other. Its estimated value is somewhere between $1,000,000 and $3,000,000. Prío's presidential salary: $25,000 a year...
...Arabian American Oil Co., world's biggest single oil producer, last week elected Robert Loring Keyes, 56, president to succeed W. F. Moore, who resigned. (Chairman F. A. Davies remains the top executive.) At the insistence of old King Ibn Saud (TIME, March 3), who gets half of Aramco's profits, President Keyes and the company's top brass will soon be moving to Saudi Arabia. Said Ibn Saud:"Every time there's a decision to be made . . . you have to refer it to New York ... in the future let's refer it here." Rangy...
...Saud's heir apparent, 50-year-old Saud, has little of his father's old forcefulness and guile. He needs both badly, for he has enemies as far as one can see across the Arabian sand and jebel. Finance Minister Abdullah Al-Soliman, trusted confidant of the King and the most powerful man in the country outside the royal family, would rather see 46-year-old Foreign Minister Feisal, Ibn Saud's second son, succeed to the throne. So would the British...