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...Mideast areas left untouched: the Neutral Zone, a barren, null tract owned jointly by Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Already, the American Independent Oil Co. (Aminoil) had a 60-year concession from Kuwait for its half share in the zone, and several companies were negotiating with King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia for his share...
Ludwig's personal fortune has been estimated as high as $350 million, including a 197-ft. $2,000,000 yacht, the Danginn, on which he has entertained celebrities ranging from Clark Gable to Saudi Arabia's King Ibn Saud. Aside from the yacht, Ludwig's only hobby is making money. To that end, he once ordered his designers to work out a way to carry oil in tankers' big hollow masts. When this proved impractical, Ludwig simply ordered his ships built from then on with no masts at all-just pipes to carry navigation lights...
Attitudes: zealous advocate of European economic union but holds U.N. in deep contempt. ("What right have Krishna Menon and the other curly-heads got to lecture us? Must France sit and listen while Ibn Saud talks about democracy?") Has no intention of asking additional U.S. aid for France: "We must do things by ourselves from...
...captains and the kings paraded on and off the stage in official Washington last week, one little scene-stealer grabbed his own private spotlight and held it right down to the last curtain. He was solemn little Prince Mashhur ibn Saud. 3½, son of the Saudi Arabian King, who had only to blink his liquid brown eyes to evoke cooings and mental chin-chucks across the nation...
Occupying the presidential suite at Walter Reed Army Hospital outside Washington last week was a wide-eyed little boy born to palace luxury but a newcomer to the miracles of modern medicine. The patient: Prince Mashhur ibn Saud, 3½, the 17th and favorite son of Arabia's King Saud (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The boy had captivated welcoming crowds with his grave salutes-but they were given with his left hand. The little prince's right side is partly paralyzed, allowing him only limited use of the arm, and he limps on a right leg that is drawn...