Word: aziz
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...proudest, and least bound by the past, is the King, Ibn Saud. He lets a few strangers into his oil-bearing domains, and he likes to hear tales of how life is lived beyond the sea. So, when his 14-year-old son, Prince Nawaf Ibn Abdul Aziz, prepared to come to the U.S., the King told him to be sure to look over a school for boys of his own age and report what it was like when he returned to Arabia...
Crown Prince Saud Ibn Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia finished his cross-country tour of the U.S., prepared to head for home this week after a month's visit. Detroit, where Prince & party occupied two entire floors of a hotel, would not soon forget him. He saw the auto capital's numerous postwar wonders, but what he really wanted, he said firmly, was one of those good old 1936 Pierce-Arrows. His father's-very roomy and comfortable-was wearing...
Crown Prince Saud Ibn Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia, eagle-faced eldest of Ibn Saud's 40-odd sons, got an eagle's-eye view of Manhattan. In the city on a coast-to-coast tour, the Prince played the tourist to the hilt-hustled straight from the Pennsylvania Railroad Station to the Empire State Building for an educational gape. Manhattan gaped, too: with the Prince was a retinue of protectors hung with cartridge belts, golden swords, and jeweled daggers...
Blended smoothly into the bright multicolored mosaic of the United Nations last week were the blue and yellow of Sweden, the blue, red and white of Iceland, and the black, red and green stripes of Afghanistan, all newly admitted to the U.N. A. Hosayn Aziz of Afghanistan was first to pen his signature to the instrument of adherence, followed by Thor Thors, Iceland's Minister to the U.S., and Oesten Unden, Foreign Minister of Sweden. Elected to the Security Council as temporary members were Belgium, Colombia and Syria; they will replace The Netherlands, Mexico and Egypt...
...diverse tongues, its anachronistic princes and princelings, its millennium of dependence on the rule of outsiders, could become a nation in the Western sense, the achievement would be one of the greatest triumphs of history. In E. M. Forster's A Passage to India, a Moslem character, Dr. Aziz, recalled that the great Mogul Emperor Akbar had worked with tolerance and wisdom to unite India, had even attempted to devise a new unifying faith. But, says Dr. Aziz: "Nothing embraces the whole of India-nothing, nothing, and that was Akbar's mistake...