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...also became Kennedy's sometime emissary overseas. In 1961 he went to Southeast Asia, continued around the world. Later that year he was rushed to Berlin when The Wall went up. In 1962 he barnstormed through the Middle East, struck up his famous friendship with Bashir Ahmad, the camel driver. So far this year Johnson has been in Scandinavia and the Benelux countries...
...carefully in search of material, only to find that when they excluded everything that Barry Goldwater, Nelson Rockefeller and President Kennedy had said the day before, all they had left was the comics. The truth is that everything is political these days, and it's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for a public figure to give a nonpolitical talk...
...Belgium and Thailand, princes of Monaco and Saudi Arabia, plus Presidents of the U.S. from Theodore Roosevelt through John F. Kennedy. The store is Abercrombie & Fitch. These royalty, as well as lesser mortals, have outfitted themselves with $2,850 shotguns and $12.95 spinning reels, father-and-son boxing gloves, camel saddles, falcon hoods, cross-eyed guns (for people who shoot righthanded and sight left-eyed), cheetah collars and catnip mice...
Down with Committees. One of the last remaining U.S. businessmen to head a huge company that carries his family name, "H. W." Hoover is unique and outspoken in many ways. He abhors management by committee; on his desk is a picture of a camel and the familiar gag caption that it is a horse designed by a committee. He insists that his executives stay out of the stock market (says Hoover: "If they're absorbed in gaining wealth, they're not giving their best thinking to the company"). He forbids corporate borrowing ("You get captured by financial obligations...
...projected oil needs, Aramco's easygoing President Thomas C. Barger, 54, runs his own shop. Barger's career tells much about the company: a geologist who arrived in Saudi Arabia in 1937, Barger spent four parched years prospecting the Rub' al Khali, learned to eat roast camel with his fingers and speak fluent Arabic, became Aramco's chief negotiator with the shrewd Saudis...