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...industry. Abu-Haidar, graduating from the American University of Beirut, decided against a career in medicine, went to work as a junior clerk for the Arabian American Oil Co. He was eventually named head of the transportation department, given the job of providing food and equipment for Aramco crews prospecting along the Persian Gulf. Trucks carrying the supplies either bogged down in the desert or were stopped by tribesmen; ships sometimes went aground. Abu-Haidar decided to switch to airplanes but Aramco, while interested, was unwilling to get too deeply into aviation...
...Haidar solved that by arranging to be fired in friendly fashion. With $600 in severance pay, he flew to London with a letter of intent from Aramco to use his nonexistent air-charter service. With that credential, he arranged the lease of an aging four-engine York, the transport version of England's Lancaster bomber of World War II. Operating out of a one-room office in Beirut, Abu-Haidar was soon getting charter business not only from Aramco but from other oil companies as well. He leased three additional Yorks, manned them with former R.A.F. flyers who knew...
Died. Mohamed ben Laden, 53, Saudi Arabian construction king who could neither read nor write but whose computer-like memory for figures lifted him from laborer to Aramco construction boss in his mid-thirties, whereupon he quit to form his own company and with the late King Ibn Saud's patronage built $500 million worth of airfields, dams and highways throughout his nation; of injuries in the crash of his de Havilland DH-125 executive jet; near Khamis Mushait, Saudi Arabia...
...already offered to sell Britain as much oil as it needs. The threat of nationalization of U.S. and British oil properties also seemed hollow. Though Algeria confiscated 13 U.S. oil companies last week, U.S. oilmen were still operating fairly freely in Egypt. In Saudi Arabia, the U.S.-dominated Aramco oil company resumed drilling...
...only 2¼ years, Sands, then 23, embarked on a lusty round-the-world odyssey. He sailed the wartime Pacific as a merchant seaman, made up for the years of prison-enforced sexual abstinence in a ten-day romp with an American Red Cross girl in Calcutta, worked for Aramco in Saudi Arabia, dug for diamonds in Venezuela, managed five jungle airports for Panagra in Bolivia, became a skilled pilot and a top-rated sports-car driver...