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Thus, last month, when an Egyptian ship docked at Jidda with a fresh canopy and a boatload of pilgrims who flaunted 5-ft. colored portraits of Nasser, King Saud became furious; police announced that the pilgrims could land, but the holy carpet could not. In the end, neither did! Budgets & Bureaucracy. Saud is well aware that Nasser's propaganda has awakened millions of illiterate Saudis to the world beyond their desert peninsula. Nowadays, anti-Saud pamphlets are appearing on the desks of civil servants and army officers throughout the country. In addition, hundreds of young, well-to-do Saudis...
...turned up to take Salinger on a 45-minute boat ride on the Moscow River, and make a few jokes about an old comrade named Joseph Stalin, recently reinterred. The two were hardly alone: a secret security agent sat stolidly in the front seat alongside the pilot; a whole boatload of them trailed the Premier's craft at a discreet distance...
Most German sportsmen would trade a boatload of Belchen for a single Auerhahn (European grouse), a bird so wily that one stuffed carcass is often all a man can show for a lifetime of shooting (TIME, April 28). The duckbilled, chicken-bodied coots that the gunmen slaughter in their annual Belchenjagd (Belchen hunt) are worthless as trophies, and dead birds are usually given to the nearest garbage collector. Some hunters claim that a Belchen is edible-if it is marinated for two weeks in buttermilk and roasted with chestnuts...
...start as a colony in 1787, when an agent of British Anti-slavery Crusader Granville Sharp leased what is now Freetown from a local tribal chief and set it up as a haven for destitute freed slaves from England. The British thoughtfully provided the new settlers with a boatload of white British prostitutes to get the population under way. In 1808 Sierra Leone formally became a British colony, and rule was gradually pushed inland to embrace the indigenous tribes as well. The British discovered diamonds in Sierra Leone's river beds in 1930, and the nation now supplies...
...Argyrol, by William Schack. The entertaining biography of Albert Barnes, self-made millionaire and self-made ogre, who bought paintings by the boatload but found his greatest joy in thumbing his nose at the world...