Word: saud
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...reservoirs of ice water, and troops of Moslem Boy Scouts. In the capital of Riyadh, lights burned late in the massive ministries along the main, four-lane boulevard, and a Saudi businessman rejoiced: "Now you get decisions even without going personally to the top." Said another: "Formerly when King Saud built a new palace, that was news. Now it's news when he inaugurates a new factory for making bottled gas, as he did recently in Riyadh." Inside the seven-mile-long walls of his air-conditioned Na-ziriyah Palace in Riyadh, King Saud was embarking on a program...
Preparing for Saud's arrival, Kuwait's lesser sheiks spared no expense. Cabinetmakers and furniture manufacturers were kept busy round the clock for a whole month refurbishing air-conditioned desert palaces. First among the princely spenders was Sheik Abdullah al Mubarak as Sabah, commander in chief of the 3,000-man armed forces, head of the police, Minister of Defense and Broadcasting, and Kuwait's unchallenged strongman. Mubarak already owns a Cadillac with brightware completely goldplated, but to celebrate Saud's coming he ordered another 69 Chevrolets, seven Oldsmobiles and seven more Cadillacs. Triumphal arches...
Camel Containing Lamb. Saud landed in his specially appointed DC-6, soon followed by two other planes bearing a retinue of 58 courtiers and five court jesters. Ostensibly, King Saud was merely returning the Kuwait ruler's visit to Saudi Arabia last October. But word in the souks was that the Saudi monarch had ac tually come to get acquainted with Sheik Abdullah al Mubarak, who, although 25 years the junior of Kuwait's ruler, is nonetheless his uncle and is slated to succeed...
Sheik Mubarak gave Saud plentiful opportunity to get acquainted. He held three separate lunches for the-Saudi ruler at three separate personal palaces. Fifteen hundred attended one banquet where, among other dishes, 25 young camels and 185 lambs were consumed. Specialty of the day: an entire young camel, roasted, containing an entire lamb, roasted, containing an entire roasted chicken, containing an entire roasted pigeon, contain ing a boiled egg. The repast was enlivened by Saud's five court jesters, who cracked off-color jokes and engaged in pratfall buffoonery...
...Saud felt embarrassed in the midst of such social consciousness, he gave no sign. At week's end he returned to his kingdom, where Saudi Arabia's middle class is not big enough to be heard inside the palace's air-conditioned rooms...