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...P.D.Q. came back, and two years ago it shipped its first crude. Last year total production reached 18.5 million barrels. Last week 57-year-old Sheik Ali, a dull but honest fellow, was getting an average $1,360 a day in royalties. As soon as the British can find a suitable teacher, they promise to open the first school in Qatar's history. P.D.Q. has built a network of roads, and now the big new Cadillacs and Buicks in Doha have some place to go. The Eastern Bank has opened a branch. The Sheik's royalty will shortly...
...just 100 minutes by plane across the Persian Gulf from Kuwait, epitomizes the progress that can be made when a sheikdom has a good ruler, a devoted foreign adviser, and enough oil royalties to work with. The five-island archipelago produces only one-thirtieth of Saudi Arabia's crude, has one-fortieth of Iraq's proven reserves, earns but a fiftieth of Kuwait's royalties. Yet Bahrein (rhyme with ah, rain) is the showplace of the oil kingdoms. Manama, the capital, looks more like a clean town in the West Indies or Bermuda than an Arab town...
...arrived, the women in the group were filing through the doors into the courtroom, each one clutching her card. Why the sexes were separated was not made clear--perhaps it was not made clear crude sense of chivalry that sent the women in first; perhaps the IBM machines in Washington practice segregation. At any rate, we men hung around in the corridor until the last of the women went through the doors. Then a bustling little agent of the government appeared and urged us to line up too--"just as if you was at a ball game waiting for tickets...
...picture shows Zapata (Marlon Brando) as a somewhat crude but noble fellow with a nice regard for the social amenities. He is also characterized as a thinker and talker, as well as a brawler. According to the movie, he is a sort of middle-of-the-road democrat who repudiates both dictators and rabid revolutionists. When the real-life Zapata wasn't busy killing his enemies, he found time to go through bogus marriage ceremonies with 26 women, only one of whom he wed legally. The film Tiger is permitted only one beauteous señorita (Jean Peters...
...work for Humble's 58-year-old, lawyer-trained President Hines Holt Baker of Houston. In the blue-chip game of oil, gambling on wildcats is part of his business. Wildcatting has helped make Humble the No. 1 U.S. producer of crude oil, and more than doubled its output in a decade (from 49 million bbls. in 1940 to 103 million in 1950). It also helped Humble boost its net profit by 66% in 1951's first half, the latest report it has issued...