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...session to decide Naguib's fate. Three days before he had delivered an ultimatum: either the R.C.C. would give him the right to veto its decisions, to appoint and dismiss Cabinet ministers and to promote and cashier army officers, or he would quit. Naguib felt no uneasiness; since Farouk departed in July 1952, the amiable major general had become Mr. Egypt. He put on his general's cap and went home, confident...
Egypt's government, busily auctioning off the confiscated assortment of treasures and junk which formerly titillated banished King Faroulc (TIME, Feb. 22), set an admission fee of $14.000 minimum for a mere look at Farouk's collection of pornography, which is not going on the block...
First to get a peek at the gallery were an American and a Briton, each of whom had bought more than $14,000 worth of Farouk's stamp collection. The American marveled: "Boy, this is certainly some collection of dirt!" Mused the Englishman: "I cannot understand why the monarch, who was surrounded by so much that was desirable, found pleasure in such obscenity." Meanwhile, four city fathers of Venice demanded that Farouk be kicked out of his Italian exile because he offends "national dignity and morality...
John Synge (of London's Sotheby & Co., the Egyptian government's appraisers), who spent eleven months evaluating Farouk's mound of gimmicks, had wound up making an amateur's psychoanalysis of the King himself, whom he had never met. "Farouk had an absolute passion for completion," he said. "He loved costly little machines that would work. He preferred small objects he could carry and fondle. He was a child in many ways...
...exile, Playboy Farouk last week gave a royal brushoff to a bill collector who wanted to collect on a $5,000 underwear bill, and drove off to Monte Carlo in a station wagon with his latest collector's item, brunette Irma Capece Minutolo, aged...