Word: rulers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...merger with Egypt in the United Arab Republic, which has not worked well, as even Nasser admits. Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and eventually Jordan might be persuaded to join a looser association called the United Arab States, which now links the U.A.R. with the feudal Imam of Yemen, a ruler whose primitivism makes the sheiks of Saudi Arabia appear enlightened democrats by comparison.* By joining the U.A.S., other Arab rulers might hope to keep some internal autonomy and some hold on their fabulous oil revenues. Such a membership, seemingly voluntary, might prove immune to U.N. charges of violating the independence...
...Calumet Farm's Gen. Duke, winner of $139,385 as a three-year-old in 1957 and co-favorite (with Bold Ruler) in last year's Kentucky Derby until scratched on race day, was destroyed in Lexington, Ky. Veterinarians found he was suffering from wobbles, an incurable spinal disease...
Illustrating the difficulty in working with the Arab states, Kirk again quoted Nasser as boasting that he was among the "strongest animals in the jungle." The Egyptian ruler also seems to believe, he added, that "the British lion has grown old and mangy under regalitarian socialism," and that "the American eagle seems to have run to tail fins and Goldfines...
...Carrying crushing top weight of 134 Ibs. and giving away up to 32 Ibs., Bold Ruler breezed to an easy victory over a lackluster field in Monmouth Park's $110,650 Monmouth Handicap...
Died. Tengku Sir Badlishah, 64, Sultan of Malaya's Kedah state, who once zipped around the peninsula in a canary-colored Rolls-Royce, was elder brother of Malaya's Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, son-in-law of Tuanku Abdul Rahman, Malaya's Paramount Ruler; of a heart attack which came while he was playing tennis; in Alor Star, Malaya...