Word: kingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...until June 2, the day before the Air Force Academy's first graduation exercises, were Barbara Ann Edwards and Lee Barnwell reunited. Two days later, after commencement, commissioning, and a full-dress, crossed-swords wedding at Denver's Christ the King Roman Catholic Church, the couple began their honeymoon. Last week, driving through southwest Colorado toward New Mexico on Colorado Highway 172, Barnwell lost control of his new, red MG roadster. The car overturned, throwing both Barbara Ann and her husband clear. "I'm O.K.," Lieut. Lee Barnwell groggily told a state trooper. "Take care...
...captain wrote a dozen letters to local rebels, promising them amnesty if they left the F.L.N. to resume normal lives in their villages. Several replied in almost friendly fashion, one saying that he wanted to wait and see what came of De Gaulle's forthcoming meeting with the King of Morocco. That meeting, if it takes place, would imply high-level Moslem approval of recent French progress-civil as well as military-in Algeria. But another replied, symbolizing the many Algerians yet to be won over: "You are not fit to serve as the recipient for the excrement...
...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...
Going Through Money. But as the royal fortunes began to mend, King Saud, 57, began to go back to his spending ways and his authoritarian habits. The palace noted that Feisal's new budget made inadequate provision for paying off retainers (and creditors), began denouncing Feisal as a penny pincher. King Saud himself took off on a tour among the desert sheiks, paying out blood money (sums Arabs owe for hurting, killing or maiming one another), passing out bank notes in the grand manner. This brought him squarely into conflict with Crown Prince Feisal, who is trying to substitute...