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...their projected oil needs, Aramco's easygoing President Thomas C. Barger, 54, runs his own shop. Barger's career tells much about the company: a geologist who arrived in Saudi Arabia in 1937, Barger spent four parched years prospecting the Rub' al Khali, learned to eat roast camel with his fingers and speak fluent Arabic, became Aramco's chief negotiator with the shrewd Saudis...
...seventh month is set aside annually for the departed; the shades swoop down upon the living, who do their best to placate them with a sumptuous feast. Dressed in their best black silk and carrying burning joss sticks, the women recite invitations to their dead ancestors to partake of roast pig's head and sticks of sugar cane, peanuts and white rice. As offerings to less trencher-minded spirits, they burn paper imitations of currency and clothes...
Jack, a crafty bully, stalks away in a sulk one afternoon, and most of the boys desert Ralph and Piggy to follow him and put on face paint, dance around fires and feast on roast pig. The new savages deify the beast that is supposed to haunt the mountaintop; as an offering to the terrible thing, a pig's head is struck on a sharpened stick and left in the woods. Readers of Golding's novel know the nature of the beast before the boys do; the movie audience is kept in witless suspense until it is revealed...
Shenker enlisted the help of LIFE Photographer Howard Sochurek. who arrived bearing a silver plate on which sat a tremendous pike. Behind came two assistants, one bearing bowls of shrimp, another carrying a roast suckling pig. All of this, Shenker casually informed Harriman, had been prepared in the Kremlin kitchens...
...prince's favorite wife. "When banqueting with him," wrote G.B.S., "she caught fire and was burned to ashes before she could be extinguished. The prince took in the situation at once. 'Sweep up your missus,' he said to his weeping staff, 'and bring in the roast pheasant.' " Shaw, whose pheasant consisted of a $600,000 trust fund from his wife, went so far as to say that he could never have been married to anyone else. Who else, for that matter, could have stayed married for 45 years to G.B.S...