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Surrounded by a robed retinue of 20 that included four sword-and-pistol-toting bodyguards and one of his four current wives (lifetime total: at least two score), Saudi Arabia's King Saud, 59, descended from a chartered TWA jet at Boston's Logan International Airport and turned himself in to the nearby Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. Immediate prospect for Saud: six weeks of treatment for what was reported to be a gastric ulcer...
...Khali in 1938. But for four years Tom Barger tramped for oil and mapped Rub Al Khali's shifting sands in 130° heat, making lifelong friends of sheiks and shepherds, princes and kings. Mastering Arabic, he began to handle Aramco's negotiations with King Ibn Saud's government, was named an Aramco vice president in 1958, president in 1959. Last week in Dhahran, smiling, sinewy (6 ft. 2 in., 200 lbs.) Tom Barger, 52, was named Aramco's chief executive officer to replace retiring Chairman Norman Hardy. Says a colleague: "You just have...
...tossed out the teachers and technicians Badr had imported from Egypt, last week called Hassan home from New York. Hassan has been given no job yet, but the ulema favor him over Badr. And on his way home Hassan spent four days in Saudi Arabia talking with King Saud, who is alarmed by the 2,000 Red Chinese and Russian technicians Badr imported, and feels Hassan is the man to prevent a Communist takeover of his neighbor...
...when Guinea refused to join the French African Community), suave, handsome Premier Sekou Toure has been touring around looking for money. In the midst of a visit to the U.A.R. last week, he suddenly flew off to Jidda to get acquainted with Saudi Arabia's rich King Saud. Saud proffered no money, so Toure hustled back to Cairo to continue his talks with Nasser, found that the U.A.R. President already had another tourist: Indonesia's Sukarno...
...depend on him. Says Tariki: "Change and reform are in the air and have the support of the King. Our royal family didn't create Saudi Arabia, but it does hold Saudi Arabia together. This country is like a block of sand, and without the house of Saud, it might fall apart...