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Misplaced Muscat...
...TIME [March 14] correct in placing Muscat on the Persian Gulf...
TIME'S National Affairs researchers were woolgathering. Muscat is on the Gulf of Oman...
...Washington last week, Envoy Roberts' call was finally returned by Sultan Seyed Syeed Bin's plump, brown-skinned, 27-year-old descendant, Muscat and Oman's Sultan Saiyid Said bin Taimur. Having traveled in the U. S. for three weeks incognito as Mr. Said, the Sultan managed to reach town one day ahead of Albania's Princesses Myzeyen, Ruhijé and Maxhide, resumed his royal status in Washington's Union Station where he emerged from his train dressed in native costume of brown robe, white undershirt, jeweled turban and dagger. Promptly and rudely nicknamed "Sultan...
...Muscat, young Sultan Saiyid Said bin Taimur has a $225,000-a-year salary, a harem with many wives, a Ford car which he drives up & down the barren country's sole 30-mile highway. His Highness Saiyid Said bin Taimur has ruled since 1932 when at his coming of age his father, who hated his job so much that he stayed in Muscat only one month a year, abdicated, retired to Japan. Having amazed Washington for three days last week, Sultan Saiyid Said removed his robes, put on street clothes, departed for New York...