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...Muscat and Oman that their swords melted in the scabbards and gazelles fell down, roasted in the desert...
...first half, $38 million more than an early estimate. Cities Service President W. Alton Jones announced record first-half profits of $36,315,490, and its wholly owned subsidiary, Dhofar-Cities Service Petroleum Corp., announced a second oil strike in the district of Dhofar in the sultanate of Muscat and Oman.* The two wells, on a 32,000-sq.-mi. concession held by Dhofar-Cities Service in partnership with Richfield Oil Corp., may mark the beginning of a major new Middle Eastern field...
...Muscat and Oman (pop. 600,000) is a Kansas-sized land of racing camels, frankincense, lush oases and forbidding highlands that has had treaty ties with Britain for more than 150 years. In the center of it lies Oman, the most isolated part of Arabia, a place of fiery tribal rivalries and religious idiosyncrasies, bounded by the sea on one side and a wall of desert peaks on the other. The first Imam of Oman set himself up in the 8th century as chief of the Ibadhiya, a Moslem sect so ascetic that it still bars minarets around its mosques...
...would naturally side with Saudi Arabia, whose oil concessions are wholly American-but the fact is that U.S. oil money dominates even the areas where British protection prevails: U.S. companies own 50% of the stake in Kuwait, 100% in Bahrein, the Neutral Zones and Dhofar, 23.75% m Muscat and Oman...
Mixed Lot. The people of Zanzibar and the nearby island of Pemba are a mixed lot. At the bottom are the 200,000 black Africans, "God's Poor." Then come the 45,000 better educated and land-rich Arabs, descendants of Arab conquerors who hailed originally from Muscat and Oman. The tiny European colony at last count numbered 296, mostly British officials. Most everybody on the island speaks Kiswahili and practices Mohammedanism (including the blacks). Overseeing everything is an aged (77) and beloved Sultan, His Highness Seyyid Sir Khalifa bin Harub, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., G.B.E. (whom God Preserve...