Word: royalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bulganin, another spectacular but distinctly different visitor made his triumphal way across India last week. He was moose-tall (6 ft. 6 in.) King Saud of Arabia, 53, ruler over Islam's holiest places and the world's richest oil lands. His party of 234, including nine royal princes and a dozen sheiks, was seven times as large as that which accompanied Bulganin and Khrushchev. When some of India's 40 million Moslems tried to garland the King's head with flowers, strapping bodyguards, slung with pistols, gold-hilted scimitars and jeweled daggers, stepped...
...estimated that the per capita income was only $45." London's Anti-Slavery Society calculates that as many as a quarter of a million Saudi Arabians may actually be living still in slavery. Yet, taking some sketchy budget figures published a few years ago, Shwadran notes that royal household affairs were allotted $27.9 million, compared with $10.7 million for public health, education and social services combined. The estimates also listed $36 million for defense, $27 million to pay debts, and $44 million for "General Development "without, says Shwadran, providing any "clue as to whether it was for wealth-producing...
...princes of the royal blood get $32,000 a year apiece plus expenses (upkeep of palaces, cars, travel allowances); and those who hold office (four of ten Cabinet members are royal princes) get $320,000 each a year plus expenses...
...continues to rate as the best Cadillac market east of Suez (250 sold this year). In a country which must import half its food, the most noteworthy farm-development project is operated on 1,800 irrigated acres at Al Kharj oasis, near Riyadh-primarily for the benefit of the royal family tables...
Britain's Royal Air Force, which has encountered similar problems, told FSR that it had tried scarecrows, shotguns and ultrasonic "sound" waves, all with little lasting effect. It is also trying sound recording of "birds in anguish," and mothballs strewn near the runways...