Word: saud
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...Nasser to be chosen for the dictator's first interview, six hours long, after the Suez war. That friendship has since chilled. He was a good friend of the late Nuri Pasha of Iraq, who always greeted him with the shout: "Hey Look!" Saudi Arabia's King Saud once gave him a wristwatch-though, since TIME'S cover was far from unreserved praise, "I only got the airline-hostess model." King Hussein of Jordan once took Mecklin flying in his plane, with an unexpected thrill at the end when the young King was barely able...
...rumors swirled around his desert kingdom, King Saud sulked in seclusion in the private quarters of his vast, chandelier-festooned palace at Riyadh. He stopped presiding over the grand luncheons and dinners served daily in the palace dining hall to visitors and hangers-on. The loudspeakers, which customarily bellow the latest news during mealtimes, were silenced. The lord of the world's richest oil sands was so strapped for cash that his yacht Monsour had been seized in Genoa for nonpayment of an Italian architect's $600,000 fee. He was under intense pressure from royal family members...
...streets of Riyadh outside the palace, there was open muttering against the King. The keeper of Islam's holy places was being denounced by Nasser's partisans throughout the Middle East as the dog who had plotted to kill their hero. Saud duly appointed a commission of notables to investigate Nasser's charges that he had paid out $5,600,000 for the job. But then Riyadh bankers refused to answer their questions, apparently on Saud's orders, and they indignantly resigned...
...Dynast. This, it seems, was the last straw. Saud called on his brother, Crown Prince Feisal, 54, to take charge of the country, save its finances, and make peace with Nasser. To Feisal, Saud formally granted "full power to lay down the state's internal, external and financial policies." Feisal immediately took over control of the Saudi armed forces, fired the King's two top advisers on defense and the budget. Behind the ancient veil of the remote Arabian capital, change had finally overtaken the proud throne raised to conquest and splendor by the "Lion of the Desert...
Hawk-nosed, black-bearded Prince Feisal, second of old Ibn Saud's 40 sons, is at least as stalwart a Saudi dynast as his brother the King, and might well be the chieftain with the stature and ability to save the Saudi regime. He is widely considered abler, more vigorous and more cultivated than his elder brother. In the desert campaigns of the '20s and '30s he fought for his warrior-father with greater flair and daring. While his taciturn brother stayed home holding interminable levees among dusty tribal sheiks, Feisal, majestically robed and daggered, represented...