Word: saud
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...greatest of the few absolute monarchs left on earth has come out-in his own fashion-for democracy. Two years ago, towering, half-blind King Saud of Saudi Arabia, deep in debt in an oil-rich nation, beset by Nasser's efforts to stir up trouble inside the country, was compelled to call upon his more vigorous and cultivated brother, Crown Prince Feisal, to take charge of the country, save its finances, and restore its prestige in the Arab world. Since then, the treasury has been built up, and the throne has not been embroiled in the intrigues...
...began encouraging newspaper editors to say things never before publicly uttered in Saudi Arabia. One newspaper called for election of a council with legislative powers, "so the people may feel they are exercising their rights as other people do." Others reported that King Saud himself favored forming parliaments in the provinces-half appointed, half elected-from which a grand national parliament would be chosen to advise the Council of Ministers...
...ever-sprouting tendrils of corruption in government, Feisal fell seriously ill (most of his life, he has had to endure chronic pain, reportedly the result of a childhood appendectomy). Last week, looking drawn and dejected, he announced that he would leave for Switzerland for medical treatment. King Saud, 58, looking more regally splendid than ever in his new style of democratic monarch, took off for Jidda and Mecca to welcome the year's first pilgrims at the holy places of Islam...
Saudi Arabia's Prince Mashhur, 6, who melted the U.S. in 1957 when his father King Saud brought him to Walter
...declares: "I reject nine out of ten would-be patients. I choose persons who represent a certain value to the world by their individual prominence." Among the chosen have been the late Pope Pius XII and the Imam of Yemen (treated in Rome), the late King Ibn Saud, Painter Georges Braque, Somerset Maugham, Gloria Swanson, the King of Morocco. Most of them received Dr. Niehans' rejuvenation treatment-one or more injections of cells from an unborn lamb...