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...Unity. Despite his wealth, he shuns luxuries, has no hobbies, and usually reads himself to sleep over bank reports. So strict a Moslem is he that he prays toward Mecca five times a day, allows none of his employees to drink, smoke or eat pork in his presence. Unimpressed by pomp, he treats peddlers, peasants and princes alike. He knows almost every Arab ruler from Ben Bella to King Saud, royally says of Jordan's King Hussein: "He is like one of my sons, but I tell him when he is wrong...
...which his doctors quickly ordered bottles of plasma as a precaution. Saud's spokesman reassuringly squelched the flurry of worry. "The doctors are there," he said, "not because the King is very, very sick but because of the importance and the power of their patient." Or, as Radio Mecca put it to Saud's subjects: "The King is in good health...
...satin, $200 in British pounds, and hundreds of thousands of rubles in state loan certificates, rubies, coins and medals. A crook named "Blue Eyes" was all set to haul the swag out by car to Afghanistan. The gang had hoped to use the profits to finance a pilgrimage to Mecca. Instead, they all landed in a Tashkent jail, sentenced to terms of 10 to 15 years...
...well as in a host of small new ones that have been sprouting on the hills each year. In the West, they were trying out the ski tows and warming huts at such new places as Big Mountain in Montana and Alpine Meadows in California. But the major mecca for college-agers at Christmastime is the town of Aspen, developed by the late industrialist Walter Paepcke high in the Rocky Mountains, 105 miles southwest of Denver...
...Mecca for fashion models is Paris' House of Dior, but for redheaded Welsh Mannequin Maggie Griffiths, 23, Dior was becoming a bore. "Fittings from 10 in the morning until 10 at night; the same clothes in the same shows day after...