Word: camel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...richest men in the world met last week and ate camel...
...Camel Containing Lamb. Saud landed in his specially appointed DC-6, soon followed by two other planes bearing a retinue of 58 courtiers and five court jesters. Ostensibly, King Saud was merely returning the Kuwait ruler's visit to Saudi Arabia last October. But word in the souks was that the Saudi monarch had ac tually come to get acquainted with Sheik Abdullah al Mubarak, who, although 25 years the junior of Kuwait's ruler, is nonetheless his uncle and is slated to succeed...
Sheik Mubarak gave Saud plentiful opportunity to get acquainted. He held three separate lunches for the-Saudi ruler at three separate personal palaces. Fifteen hundred attended one banquet where, among other dishes, 25 young camels and 185 lambs were consumed. Specialty of the day: an entire young camel, roasted, containing an entire lamb, roasted, containing an entire roasted chicken, containing an entire roasted pigeon, contain ing a boiled egg. The repast was enlivened by Saud's five court jesters, who cracked off-color jokes and engaged in pratfall buffoonery...
Skull & Collarbone. Working for seven months on hands and knees, their eyes just a few inches from the ground, Leakey, his wife and his son sifted the yellow earth and painstakingly uncovered bones, using camel's hair brushes and dental picks to prevent them from breaking. They found remains of two humans-a child thought to be about eleven and an adult, both of undetermined sex. From the child, there were skull fragments, a jawbone, bones from a hand and foot and a collarbone. Left from the ancient adult were some teeth, skull fragments and a collarbone...
...such sour note flawed the Republic Day parade in New Delhi. Lancers of the 61st Cavalry pranced by on spirited horses; the 13th Grenadiers Camel Corps galumphed past, and troops of elephants ponderously raised their trunks in salute. More meaningful to many Indians was the sight of a British Queen laying a wreath of 500 white roses at the shrine of Mohandas Gandhi...