Word: kingdom
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...evils. For the partnership between king and company has been based from the first on strict terms of U.S. noninterference in Saudi Arabia's domestic policies. The royalties Aramco pays provide 90% of the government's revenues. Without Aramco, Saudi Arabia would revert to a black-tent kingdom of camels, date palms and holy places. But no U.S. adviser has his office in the palace compound (as the British ambassador did in Jordan), no company agent issues authoritative suggestions to Saud's government officials (as Anglo-Iranian did in Iran). The result has been that nowhere else...
...anything but a musician, and he never was. He was often open and fun-loving among his friends, but toward the public he was shy. He shunned personal honors and shrank from personal publicity (he never granted a formal interview in his life). He was content with the limited kingdom of concert hall and home, and in that kingdom he was as absolute a monarch as ever lived. He was the highest-salaried classical conductor in history (up to $9,000 for a single broadcast). He had little interest in money as such, but proudly insisted musicians should be well...
LAOS Conquest by Negotiation Life in Shangri-La was never quite so dreamlike as life in Laos since that country became an independent nation 2½ years ago. With the French no longer directing its political life, the unwarlike people of this Buddhist kingdom in the interior of the Indochinese peninsula relapsed into their old hedonist ways. Though Laos is practically roadless, well-to-do Laotians bought Mercedes cars and Italian scooters (with U.S. and French aid), built showy riverside houses, idled their days away in the pagoda gardens listening to Panpipe music and watching the graceful Thai dances...
Marcelino. The story of a little child and of how he entered into the Kingdom of Heaven; made in Spain by Director Ladislao Vajda (TIME...
...Essentially Sound." Said Director Jacobsson: "The trading position of the United Kingdom has been and continues to be essentially sound." The new "pressure was not caused by weakness in the current account, but reflected a decline in confidence." The fund's "support on a massive scale" would "effectively contribute to restoration of the strong balance-of-payments position...