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...Kuwait's Sheik Abdullah al Salim al Sabah will get more than $200 million in oil royalties this year, the biggest oil royalty cut in the world. He probably has the biggest annual income of any man on earth. All this has come to a land no bigger than New Jersey, which was still living meanly at the close of World War II in an economy based mainly on pearling and Gulf shipping. The men responsible for this revolution-in a land where slaveholding is still legal-are a few Westerners, 45 Americans and 625 Britons, representing the Kuwait...
Abdullah al Salim al Sabah, a tall, heavy man of about 58, has a reputation as something of a scholar. Awed subjects say he has read through the encyclopedia from A to Z; currently he is writing a history of Kuwait. He is a kindly, gentle man, with a low, musical voice which he seldom raises. Every Friday he takes off on a cruise in his well-fitted dhow, accompanied by officials from K.O.C. and local American and British diplomats. He relaxes and invites his foreign friends to air their problems. There is nothing about him of the autocratic...
...quickly fell. Dutch paratroopers and airborne forces seized Magowo airfield, outside the capital, and invaded the city. The action was so fast that the Dutch were able to arrest the republic's top leaders, including President Soekarno, Premier Mohammed Hatta, ex-Premier Sutan Sjahrir, Foreign Minister Hadji Agus Salim, and General Sudirman, commander of the republic's 300,000 ill-armed troops. The Dutch announced that they had only three wounded, none killed...
...affair with a tough little Eurasian named Thelma Morrison-one of those clinical matings, ruthlessly antiromantic, which seem to be a feature of contemporary fiction, whether laid in Bombay or Westchester. His sister goes to jail in a riot, his friend Salim is assassinated and he himself attacked in ambush. His project for an airline transporting pilgrims comes to nothing (the pilgrims get airsick) and he settles down to a job as a commercial airlines pilot...
Shooting Affair. In Rio de Janeiro, Teodoro Salim saw a woman walking with his fiancee, shot at her, was arrested, said he thought he was shooting his future mother...