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...months King Saud loafed, moody and myopic, about his vast palaces, in the wreckage of the prestige he had inherited from his mighty warrior father, the late Ibn Saud. Everything he touched had ended in political disaster: his extravagant giving and building exhausted the treasury and debased the currency, his clumsy plots against President Nasser exposed his regime to ridicule and isolation in the Arab world. The crowning blow had fallen when his younger brothers, led by the openly contemptuous Prince Talal, tongue-lashed him last year in private family council...
...sales: $252.5 million), is selling room units 32% ahead of last year, and Fedders Corp., biggest seller of room units (fiscal 1958: $53.9 million), is running 10% ahead in shipments. In March alone, Westinghouse, which has air-conditioned everything from President Eisenhower's Gettysburg farmhouse to King Saud's Saudi Arabian harem, topped last year's shipment rate by 47%. Borg-Warner's York Division, which normally shuts its window-unit assembly lines by June 30., scheduled production well into July...
...quality has also gained from the shoddiness of some postwar U.S. products and from the fact that Russia's achievements in rocketry have created doubts about U.S. technological preeminence. German traders have also won an enviable reputation for fast delivery. Last summer when Saudi Arabia's King Saud decided he needed a three-truck caravan (sleeper with bath, dining car with throne, and a supply van), British and French firms told him he would have to wait six months. West Germany's Daimler-Benz, teaming up with a specialty body firm, did the job in seven weeks...
...less winning but much less solemn than he was on his visit to the U.S. for medical treatment last year, Saudi Arabia's five-year-old Prince Mashhur ibn Saud balanced a toy pistol on his head, was photographed at a Cairo party...
Married. Prince Fahd ibn Abdul Aziz, 40, Minister of Education for Saudi Arabia, brother of King Saud and one of some 40 sons of the late Ibn Saud; and Safinaz Nour, 18; in Cairo. Prince Fahd gave his bride jewelry worth an estimated $275,000, a collection of Christian Dior dresses, a cash gift of $40,000, presented her family with six U.S. limousines...