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...lowly art of bookkeeping, King Saud of Saudi Arabia is no match for his more cultivated younger brother, the lean and able Crown Prince Feisal. Two years ago, after Saud's munificent handouts to himself and some 300 assorted princes of the realm had brought even oil-rich Saudi Arabia deeply into debt, an angry family council forced the King to hand over the effective reins of government to Feisal. Under the guidance of experts on loan from the International Monetary Fund, Feisal proceeded to balance the budget by severe maneuvers, even slashing the allowances of pampered princelings...
...friends had another explanation. Snapped one: "Peter has always taken care of his mother. She's bugged at him because she's not accepted in the social swim. She's trying to create the picture of a poor old lady living in a Montana lean-to on bacon grease." At week's end, after only two days on the job, Lady Lawford, who had earned not a penny in commissions, quit. Refusing her $50 pay, her ladyship blamed it all on a political conspiracy. She lamented that her jeweler boss claimed that he was losing...
...Kremlin whizzed back and forth last week like commuting suburbanites. Day after day they rode in portly twosomes to welcome the Communist bosses of ten satellites. One afternoon, a round dozen of them wheeled out, led by rotund Nikita Khrushchev, to greet the guest of honor, China's lean, scowling chief of state, Liu Shao-chi, 62. The presence of Liu and other rulers of Communist states barred from the U.N., as well as Communist Party chieftains from all around the world, made Moscow's gathering the biggest assemblage of Communist satraps since 1957, bigger by far than...
...ruddy moon lean over a hedge...
...weeks. Alan Jay Lerner is cool, self-controlled and self-censored, a planner who will not even put money in his own shows because, as he firmly explains, "I don't bet." Loewe likes to recall that he "starved" for 20 years; Lerner has always been wealthy. Short, lean, with the sallow skin of the heart patient, Loewe is 59 and looks it; about the same height (5 ft. 6 in.), with small bones and an unweathered complexion, Lerner is 42 and could pass for a graduate student. Both men are intensely ambitious for the critical success of their work...