Word: saud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wake of Khrushchev and 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...
...last absolute monarchs on earth, King Saud prefers to give, rather than receive, on his travels. Visiting Iran earlier this year, he presented the Queen with diamond jewelry worth $900,000. After attending the 1953 coronation of King Feisal, he presented the Iraqis who looked after him with a fabulous tip: $80,000 in cash, two Cadillacs and a Chevrolet. Last week he presented Prime Minister Nehru's daughter Indira with a golden headband and a diamond-studded wristwatch...
...calling his own tune, and as a result, he was in fairly constant trouble with his boss. Once on a diplomatic visit to Iraq, Salem impulsively waved aside all Egyptian objections to a pact between Iraq and its neighbors, Syria and Jordan. Egypt's closest ally, King Saud of Saudi Arabia, promptly raised a howl of protest, and Nasser hastily sent Salem off on a "leave of absence." He flew into a fit of temperament that only his older brother, Wing Commander Gamal Salem, the Deputy Premier, was able to smooth over. Again, at a diplomatic conference in India...
...past three weeks, 173 Palestinian Arabs have been quietly deported from Saudi Arabia - 121 of them Aramco employees - and U.S. oilmen cannot get an official explanation. The unofficial explanation is that King Saud is taking capricious revenge on Hashimites (a rival Arab dynasty that gets on reasonably well with Palestinians). Hashimite Iraq recently signed a defense treaty with NATO partner Turkey, thereby splitting up the neutral Arab bloc for the first time. King Saud, one of 40 sons of the late great Lion of the Desert Ibn Saud, has not yet proven himself as lionhearted as his father, and reportedly...
...gold that nothing in his training could have anticipated or prepared him to spend wisely. He left the land to his sons to make or break. In Saudi Arabia there are signs-new hospitals, new roads, new schools (though not enough of them), a bustle on all sides-that Saud will make it if he can, and if the oil holds out. It should: the country has the largest proved reserves in the world...