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...liner Queen Mary brought Feisal into New York Harbor last week, however, his official hosts could hardly avoid a horrible second thought: What if he saw America and didn't like it? They could not forget that another Feisal (the son of Saudi Arabia's Ibn Saud) had been picketed and spat upon in New York...
Saudi Arabia's King Ibn Saud, whose U.S. shopping sprees have already included the purchase of 20 air-conditioned limousines and a $20,000 auto-trailer, decided he needed a modern flying carpet. Transocean Air Lines announced that it was custom-fitting (for some $100,000) a Douglas DC-4 as an aerial palace for His Majesty. Among the accessories: a raised throne which revolves a full 360° and has an extra-heavy-duty safety belt; an oversized bed in a bedroom complete with bath; an elevator; 18 luxurious chair seats. The plane is expected to be ready...
...Arabian American Oil Co., world's biggest single oil producer, last week elected Robert Loring Keyes, 56, president to succeed W. F. Moore, who resigned. (Chairman F. A. Davies remains the top executive.) At the insistence of old King Ibn Saud (TIME, March 3), who gets half of Aramco's profits, President Keyes and the company's top brass will soon be moving to Saudi Arabia. Said Ibn Saud:"Every time there's a decision to be made . . . you have to refer it to New York ... in the future let's refer it here." Rangy...
...this granite-faced man, whose steely strength and craftiness unified a sprawled sand ocean of 900,000 square miles and its 6,000,000 warriorlike people, has brought uncertainty to the country. The old man now seldom rises from the wheelchair which Franklin D. Roosevelt gave him after Ibn Saud admired Roosevelt's. He sometimes embarrasses visitors by falling asleep in mid-conversation...
...Saud's heir apparent, 50-year-old Saud, has little of his father's old forcefulness and guile. He needs both badly, for he has enemies as far as one can see across the Arabian sand and jebel. Finance Minister Abdullah Al-Soliman, trusted confidant of the King and the most powerful man in the country outside the royal family, would rather see 46-year-old Foreign Minister Feisal, Ibn Saud's second son, succeed to the throne. So would the British...