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...wake of Khrushchev and Bulganin, another spectacular but distinctly different visitor made his triumphal way across India last week. He was moose-tall (6 ft. 6 in.) King Saud of Arabia, 53, ruler over Islam's holiest places and the world's richest oil lands. His party of 234, including nine royal princes and a dozen sheiks, was seven times as large as that which accompanied Bulganin and Khrushchev. When some of India's 40 million Moslems tried to garland the King's head with flowers, strapping bodyguards, slung with pistols, gold-hilted scimitars and jeweled...
...last absolute monarchs on earth, King Saud prefers to give, rather than receive, on his travels. Visiting Iran earlier this year, he presented the Queen with diamond jewelry worth $900,000. After attending the 1953 coronation of King Feisal, he presented the Iraqis who looked after him with a fabulous tip: $80,000 in cash, two Cadillacs and a Chevrolet. Last week he presented Prime Minister Nehru's daughter Indira with a golden headband and a diamond-studded wristwatch...
...Missing Billion. King Saud's largesse is the talk of the Eastern world. But because the son of the late great Ibn Saud has never deigned to publish a statement of his revenues and expenditures, nobody knows precisely what use he has made of the underground wealth that Allah bestowed on him. In The Middle East, Oil and the Great Powers, published last week in Manhattan (Praeger...
Last year, 20 years after old Ibn Saud brought in U.S. oilmen and the golden flood began to spout out of the Arabian American Oil Co.'s wells, the government received an income in royalties and taxes of about $200 million-and managed to spend it all and $50 million besides. Since World War II, according to Shwadran's calculations, the King of Saudi Arabia has run through $1.4 billion paid him by the oil companies...
...Price of a Throne. No such commanding warrior as his warrior father, King Saud has had to buy allegiance...