Word: saud
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...shores last week came a strapping, bearded man in white kaffiyeh and flowing robes who stirred up as much fascination and comment as though he had fluttered to earth on the magic carpet with which most cartoonists endowed him. Saud ibn Abdul Aziz al Faisal al Saud, King of Saudi Arabia, leader of uncounted millions of people, counter of untold millions of dollars, prodigious master of a prolific harem, had come to call on the President of the U.S. He arrived on the U.S. liner Constitution, said his farewell to the ship's hands with gifts of money...
...welcome could have been more royal, despite the fact that Saud's arrival was prefaced by a storm of controversy started by New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner Jr., who refused to offer the customary official city welcome. "He's a fellow," cried Bob Wagner, "who says slavery is legal, and that in his country our Air Force cannot use Jewish men and cannot permit any Roman Catholic Chaplain to say Mass. [Saud is not] the kind of person we want to recognize in New York City." This Wagnerian fortissimo did not dampen the Navy...
Ceremonial Sefs. The eye-popping fact was that Saudi Arabia's King Saud acted every inch the fabled and inscrutable potentate. His retinue-some 70 advisers and princes, ballasted by 300 pieces of luggage-was a brilliant pageant of flowing robes and fancy headdresses. There seemed to be a retainer on hand to perform every minute function: the royal chief steward came along to oversee the seasoning of the King's food; a compass-bearer kept track of the direction of Mecca for the five daily prayer rituals of the King; there was a royal barber, a coffee...
...Next day Saud flew off to Washington in President Eisenhower's Constellation, Columbine III. When he touched ground, Saud found Ike himself waiting at the airport-an honor that the President had never before bestowed on a state visitor. "Welcome to the United States," said the President. Replied Saud, who speaks only a few English words: "How do you do. Thank you very much...
...then that Saud began his visit in earnest. Ike and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles escorted him to the guest quarters at Blair House and took their leave. After a private luncheon, the King paid his first state visit to the White House...