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While Feisal stuck to his ledgers, King Saud practiced the gritty game of desert politics that he had learned on horseback at the side of his one-eyed warrior father Ibn Saud. First he moved grandly to the left of his brother Feisal, intrigued the kingdom's newspaper editors with talk of a transition from feudal to parliamentary rule (TIME, May 30). Then he flew to West Germany, drew out $50 million which he had providently tucked away in a bank there, came home and set off on royal safaris across the desert, dispensing largesse to tribal chieftains. Over...
...like 60), who declares: "I reject nine out of ten would-be patients. I choose persons who represent a certain value to the world by their individual prominence." Among the chosen have been the late Pope Pius XII and the Imam of Yemen (treated in Rome), the late King Ibn Saud, Painter Georges Braque, Somerset Maugham, Gloria Swanson, the King of Morocco. Most of them received Dr. Niehans' rejuvenation treatment-one or more injections of cells from an unborn lamb...
Sacred to Jews, Christians and Moslems alike, the rock has rarely lacked a noble covering. The present dome dates back to the great edifice erected by Abdul-Malek Ibn Marwan, Caliph of Damascus, in 691, who used up seven years' tax revenue from Egypt to realize his dream. In 1099, crusaders mounted a gold cross on the dome and turned it into a church. Later, Saladin Avon it back for Islam, lovingly coated the interior arches with mosaic, the walls with marble. Suleiman the Magnificent ordered the exterior walls covered with splendid blue tiles...
...months King Saud loafed, moody and myopic, about his vast palaces, in the wreckage of the prestige he had inherited from his mighty warrior father, the late Ibn Saud. Everything he touched had ended in political disaster: his extravagant giving and building exhausted the treasury and debased the currency, his clumsy plots against President Nasser exposed his regime to ridicule and isolation in the Arab world. The crowning blow had fallen when his younger brothers, led by the openly contemptuous Prince Talal, tongue-lashed him last year in private family council...
Only the intervention of Ibn Saud's second son, the able, hawk-nosed Crown Prince Feisal, 55, saved his throne. "He is our brother," said Feisal, as he himself took over in King Saud's name the direction of defense, finance and foreign affairs. He called off ill-judged Saudi forays into Arab politics, decreed a system of ministerial responsibility in the desert realm. Preparing the first real Saudi budget, Feisal pruned royal spending (not a single Cadillac was imported into Saudi Arabia in the first six months of this year), strengthened the riyal from 6.5 to less...