Word: saud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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 air of his neighbor, Ibn Saud. He revived the Majlis (an informal council of sheiks and leading businessmen) which predecessors suppressed. He has plans for setting up some kind of constitutional government in Kuwait "when the people are ready." In the meantime, the door of his small, unpretentious palace is open to anyone who has anything...
...this granite-faced man, whose steely strength and craftiness unified a sprawled sand ocean of 900,000 square miles and its 6,000,000 warriorlike people, has brought uncertainty to the country. The old man now seldom rises from the wheelchair which Franklin D. Roosevelt gave him after Ibn Saud admired Roosevelt's. He sometimes embarrasses visitors by falling asleep in mid-conversation...
...Saud's heir apparent, 50-year-old Saud, has little of his father's old forcefulness and guile. He needs both badly, for he has enemies as far as one can see across the Arabian sand and jebel. Finance Minister Abdullah Al-Soliman, trusted confidant of the King and the most powerful man in the country outside the royal family, would rather see 46-year-old Foreign Minister Feisal, Ibn Saud's second son, succeed to the throne. So would the British...
Saudi Arabia's polygamous old King Ibn Saud takes good care of his wives, both past & present. Last week a Cincinnati hearse manufacturer showed off a new $250,000 present the King is buying for his four present and some 120 former wives-20 new Cadillacs with custom-built bodies to make them desertproof and peekproof. The King will use them to carry his wives between the twin capitals of Riyadh and Mecca. Each car has six doors, accommodates six wives (plus chauffeur and attendant), has electric fans, special windows so the women...
...grizzled old warrior wanted more. By week's end, four directors, two vice presidents and two legal counselors converged on Riyadh and began soothing Ibn Saud. Before they are through, Aramco may have to: 1) admit Saudi Arabians to its board, 2) agree to pay more of Ibn Saud's royalties in dollars, less in sterling, 3) finance the Gulf-to-Mecca railway...