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Keeping the oath was not easy. As King, Saud squandered fortunes on his pleasures, chief of which were a huge harem. Next to women, Saud liked air-conditioned Cadillacs best, and next to Cadillacs, intrigue. In contrast, Feisal was almost a puritan: though thrice married, he lives with only one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saudi Arabia: A Brace of Kings | 11/20/1964 | See Source »

Dar es Salaam in Arabic means "haven of peace," but since Tanganyika became an independent country in 1961, the title of its capital has taken on a dramatic new meaning. The city has become a "haven" for refugees from the European-controlled countries of southern Africa and the main base...

Author: By John D. Gerhart, | Title: Dar es Salaam Becomes Center of Refugee Intrigue; Nine Exiled Regimes Have Headquarters in City | 9/25/1964 | See Source »

When Lebanon tried to hold a presidential election in 1958, the tiny country exploded in civil war. More than a thousand Lebanese were slain, the Soviet Union rattled its rockets, and 14,000 U.S. marines landed to ward off a threatened Communist or Nasserite takeover. Yet last week, when the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lebanon: The Sweet Era | 8/28/1964 | See Source »

The German-speaking Sexbombes are a persevering, single-minded breed. Typical of her fetching generation is Senta Berger, 23, a former student at the Max Reinhardt Institute in Vienna, who played hooky from school to do a tiny bit in The Journey with Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner, went on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Faces: Les Girls | 8/21/1964 | See Source »

Prestige from Rank. Neither strong nor furious, except occasionally with their wives, most Shriners seemed less like noble pranksters than a mobilized cross section of middle-class Americans. They claim an unrestricted membership (though Negroes would be welcome, none have tested the claim, preferring a similar, separate-but-equal Negro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Organizations: Who Are Those Arabs? | 7/31/1964 | See Source »

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