Word: imamate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the fierce old Imam of Yemen clumped off to Rome five months ago to treat his arthritis, rheumatism, heart trouble (and reportedly drug addiction), all the malcontents produced by his eleven years of absolute rule thought they saw their chance. No sooner was the Imam gone than his troops mutinied, his courtiers began to intrigue, and tribal chieftains began to fight out their ancient grudges against each other. Swayed by Egyptian advice, the Imam's bumbling caretaker son. Crown Prince Badr, unsuccessfully tried to buy off the dissidents by promising "reforms"-the appointment of a representative council, more...
...some pundits it appeared that Yemen's loose, 18-month-old "federation" with Nasser's United Arab States had at last begun to undermine the foundations of the Imam's medieval theocracy. But they were reckoning without the Imam. Bustling back to his Red Sea domain with a shipload of wives and concubines, the Sword of Islam flashed commandingly. "I swear by Allah." he proclaimed from his palace balcony in the sun-charred seaport of Hodeida. "that I shall behead every black and every white whenever a complaint is lodged. There have been misdeeds-by hooligans...
...inept Prince Badr was let off with nothing worse than a rebuke for his lack of toughness, but the Yemeni radio stopped broadcasting army officers' speeches, and not a word more was heard about any reforms. And last week came reports that, true to his promise, the Imam had ordered the decapitation of one of his subjects and the amputation of the left hand and right foot of 15 others, in punishment for the murder of a high official last June. Clearly, the Imam's particular brand of peace was about to return to Arabia Felix...
...Paul Niehans, '77 (though he looks more 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...
...Niehans asks no fee from ruling princes. But here there is another and more tangible "response to treatment." In his mansion is a priceless silk carpet, 30 ft. square, the gift of an Oriental potentate. The Imam of Yemen gave him a ritual sword in a jewel-studded gold scabbard. In the immense living room are several old masters, including a Van Dyck and a Durer. Most of Dr. Niehans' colleagues are still unconvinced, but his patients appear to be grateful...