Word: saud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...presentation, arranged months ago, would fall in a week when gifts in government had Washington newsmen in a happy, hungry chase. The State Department had just kicked downstairs affable Victor Purse, 38, deputy chief of protocol, for accepting a sort of grandiose tip from Arabia's King Saud. The gift: a $3,000 Oldsmobile convertible, tendered to Purse's wife after Purse had seen Saud to the diplomatic door by flying back to Saudi Arabia with him after last February's state visit...
...Arabs had once again shown that Arab solidarity was only lip deep. King Saud was privately furious at the Syrians. His mediation efforts increased his stature with other Arabs; Syria's refusal of them cost Syria sympathy...
...evolution has not proceeded evenly, and in places like Saudi Arabia and Yemen it has yet to start. King Saud's wives and concubines are transported in air-conditioned Cadillacs with special one-way glass to guard them from prying eyes...
...home? Food? She's got food. Clothes? She's got clothes. Queen, indeed! She will be a prisoner." But Ferial herself was reported to be delighted. "All she thinks of is the jewels," said one of her girl friends, as Beirut echoed with gossip that Saud was preparing to give his prospective bride $150,000 worth of gems. Ferial's none-too-prosperous parents were also pleased-they had six other children to educate, and Saud is notoriously generous to his relatives. "He is a King," said Ferial's mother. "Nobody would refuse a King...
...Since Moslem law permits a man to divorce his wife by saying three times "I renounce thee" and the Koran provides that a man shall have only four wives at a time, Saud presumably keeps no more than the permitted number, divorcing one of them whenever he wants a change...