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...tycoon, a married man." Later, on the Continent, she picked up yet another rich companion and helped him buy champagne all over Europe. While at Deauville, she took up with an Egyptian named Pulley Bey, known then, according to the D.A., as "procurer by appointment to His Majesty King Farouk." Pulley took her home to Cairo as a tidbit for the king, but revolution prevented her meeting the girl-prone monarch...
Egypt's beautiful Princesses Faiza, Fawzia and Faika, joined by their sister Fathia, who is now living in the U.S., filed suit in Cairo to recover some $5,000,000 worth of jewels, property and palace treasures as their share of the impounded estate of unbeautiful exiled brother Farouk. The lawyers acting for them will challenge the will of their father, the late King Fuad, which left all movable treasures in the royal palaces to Farouk; and base their claim on Islamic law, which gives each female one-eighth of the fam ily estate. The government's case...
...Ordered a sweeping purge, retroactive to 1939, of "all persons . . . who have indulged in nepotism, political corruption, and misuse of power and influence." ¶Allotted $200 million to further land reform, and decreed the expropriation of "surplus" lands (more than 200 acres) of in landowners, including exiled King Farouk's family...
...Cairo, the private fleet of 80 cars (including a 1939 black Packard fitted with a double bed) which exiled Farouk was forced to leave behind were put up for public sale. In London, a collector paid $2,940 for the custom-built, armored Mercedes-Benz which belonged to the late Hermann Goring...
...General Naguib, the man who threw out Farouk. No man has done so much to rid part of the world of corruption...