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Islam last week marked the end of the 1,333rd pilgrimage to Mecca. As 1,250,000 Moslems left for home, they carried with them from Mohammedanism's most devout observance the echoes of a noisy political feud between Saudi Arabia's monarch, King Saud, and Egypt's dictator, President Gamal Abdel Nasser. In the struggle for supremacy in the modern Arab world, the ancient ways of Saudi Arabia are slowly changing...
Inevitably, there was endless speculation as to who was behind the combine. Sheraton executives suggested it might be oil-rich Saudi Arabians-perhaps even King Saud himself. Others were certain that it was a group of Swiss financiers. Last week Hawaii discovered with some shock and much irreverent merriment that there was nobody behind the combine...
Wending his nomadic way home from the U.S. via Spain, Saudi Arabia's King Saud, 60, descended on Malaga in his Boeing 720 and took over the sumptuous Castillo Santa Catalina. His fortnight's rental (including a bed custom-made to his outsized dimensions) came to $10,000, but after two days, Saud restlessly roared off to Torremolinos. Although His Majesty had neglected to pay the bill, the Castillo's proprietors remained unruffled. Saud, it was understood, had arrived in Spain with a $340,000 bank draft and -for walking-around money-traveler's checks totaling...
Next day, when Saudi Arabia's King Saud came to call on the President, Jackie Kennedy went into 24 hours of voluntary purdah. In deference to Arab custom, women were omitted from the official White House dinner for the King. Jackie flew off to Manhattan with her sister, Princess Lee Radziwill (for undisclosed reasons). That night, after the Saud dinner, Jack Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon Johnson betook themselves to a party given by the President's sister, Eunice Shriver. J.F.K. was dancing when the orchestra began a twist, but kept on sedately fox-trotting...
...ditty fell into Nasser's hands and he exploded. Speaking at Port Said last week, Nasser lumped the Imam with Jordan's King Hussein and Saudi Arabia's King Saud as "reactionaries," and accused them of fostering conditions that are an affront to "the law of justice and the law of God." Said Nasser: "We shall have genuine class equality. Political freedom is nonsense without freedom from feudalism and capitalism ... If social justice is applied in Saudi Arabia, how can King Saud finance his harem and his slaves?" Stabbing the air with his fingers and pursing...