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...Ghazi al-Qusaibi, 37, Minister of Industry and Electricity, received his master's degree in international relations from the University of Southern California. A big, round-faced man, Qusaibi wears thick-lensed glasses because, as he explains, "when I was a child in Al Hasa province, I almost went blind as we had no medical facilities." He presides over the single largest industrial project in history: the construction of an $11 billion gas-gathering project that will take the natural gas flared away at Saudi wells and liquefy it for shipment abroad...
Embree picked up a third in the triple jump, leaping 44 ft.-6 3/4 in. Hasa Kayali bounded 45 ft.-11 1/2 in. for second place in the event, as Brown's Colm Cronin set a new Briggs Cage record...
...news that the Government hasa general manager, and that he is generally rated exceptionally good at his job, is apt to provoke most citizens to some pretty indignant questions. What about the rise and fall of Washington czars and co ordinating agencies, the famed Washington confusion, the wearisome headaches, bottlenecks, bickerings, fumbles and bumbles? What has General Manager Smith been doing all this time? If he is any good, why hasn't he straightened out the mess? Pending investigation, John Citizen may be pardoned for concluding that Harold Smith is a hell of an efficiency expert...
...attack on Mecca, which was instrumental in forcing King Husein of Hejaz to resign (TIME, October 13), came to an end without a shot being fired. The warlike Wahabis, subject of the Emir of Nejd and Hasa, rode into the city, made straight for the great Mosque containing relics of Mohammed, rode seven times around it, dismounted, fell upon their knees and bowed their heads to the ground in religious homage at the shrine of Islam...
...States of Arabia: Kingdom of Iraq; French Mandate of Syria; Kingdom of Hejaz; Emirate of Nejd_and Hasa; Emirate of Jebel Shammar; Principals of Asir; Imamate of Yemen; British Protectorate of Aden; Sultanate of Oman; Sultanate of Koweit; Emirate of Kerak; Emirate of Bab-el-Mandab; Emirate of Lahj; State of Hadramaut; Emirate of El-Mohammerah; Emirate of Bahrein...