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Ninety miles inland from the Persian Gulf, the oasis of Buraimi has slumbered for centuries. Its 8,000 inhabitants subsist on dates, camel meat and milk, and live in eight, mud-walled villages scorched by the gusts of the shamal. No one knows for certain to whom Buraimi belongs. Northward lies Trucial Oman, "protected" by the British; westward lies Saudi Arabia; all around is uncharted waste, so desolate that even the Arabs call it Rub al Khali, the Empty Quarter...
Last August a camel caravan lumbered into Buraimi bearing 40 Saudi officials, clerks and armed men headed by a doughty Arabian named Emir Turki Ibn Utaishan. They started wooing the bewildered inhabitants and chiefs with lavish feasts, silver riyals and sweet talk. Immediately, the Trucial Sheik of Abu Dhabi and the Sultan of Muscat appealed to their "protector" Great Britain to repel the "invaders...
...melodramatic fiction about a weather team headed by hard-boiled Chief Petty Officer Richard Widmark. When Japanese planes bomb out the weather station, Widmark and his men set out for the sea on an 800-mile trek across the desert. On the way, they encounter vicious Japanese, treacherous Chinese camel traders, and lariatswinging nomad tribesmen on Mongol ponies...
Composer Berezowsky, once a violinist with the Coolidge Quartet and now a staff musician at CBS, turned in an hour-long score of easy melodies and rather plush harmonies. When an elephant became perplexed, the violins and xylophone played good-humored glissandos. When a camel strode, the tuba booped in tempo. And when a song showed signs of becoming too sugary, its harmonies were spiced with dissonance. Berezowsky's best moments came in the circus scene, when he let him self go in razzle-dazzle imitations of a wind band...
...even older in the Middle East, where it was used sporadically thousands of years ago. For reasons more social than technical, it has died out. Point Four experts estimate that vast areas of desert can be made productive by reviving the technique. They are now trying to develop camel-drawn earthmovers so that the Arabs can do their own water spreading at almost no cost except labor...