Word: feisal
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Crowds jammed Amman's King Feisal Avenue six deep last week. Watching from rooftops, veiled women set up the piercing wail of joy called Zaghareed. The object of the outcry, a smiling, slender lad in a slow-moving, blue 1953 Lincoln convertible surrounded by armored cars, replied again & again with precise Sandhurst salutes. The procession moved on to Jordan's Parliament building. There, dressed in the gilded blue uniform of an Arab Legion general, the lad rose from a satin throne and said in a loud, clear voice: "I swear by God to abide by the constitution...
...bare desert and mountain, in fabled Baghdad, another boy just turned 18, faced an elegant, white-tied assemblage of bearded senators, princes, sheiks and emissaries of 33 foreign lands. At the stroke of 8 on the same morning, he swore to "safeguard the constitution and independence" of Iraq. As Feisal became Iraq's third King, cannons also hammered a101-gun salute, and the people of the ancient, reconstituted kingdom (formerly Mesopotamia) cried their delight...
...medals, decorations and awards, including four sabers (one encrusted with diamonds, emeralds and rubies, the gift of Prince Feisal of Saudi Arabia) and two silver-plated, frontier-model Colt six-shooters, on display in his upstairs quarters...
...Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands, who thanked the President for the U.S. aid to his country during the recent floods. ¶Prince Feisal, Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia and second of King Ibn Saud's 30 odd sons, who brought Ike an 111n. gold dagger, a black burnoose...
Visiting Chicago, young King Feisal II remained in his hotel room, canceled all appointments, including a civic luncheon. A State Department attaché explained: the tour of Detroit, with an eight-mile hike through the Ford plant, had left His Majesty "completely bushed...