Word: saudi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Coordinator. Soaring high into the clean, quiet void - where at times the visibility stretched for more than 200 miles - the planes streaked counterclockwise around the earth - eastward across the U.S., over Newfoundland, past North Africa, Saudi Arabia and Ceylon (giving the Soviet Union a wide berth), made a mock bomb-run off the Malay Peninsula, cut back over Manila, then Guam, headed across the wide reaches of the Pacific to California (see map). Below, in daylight hours, the world spun like a giant relief globe; sometimes at night the planes butted their way through air so charged and turbulent that...
...span between sunrises was compressed to 16-hr. "sun days," half light, half dark. They caught their first sunset over the Great Lakes, a few hours after their i p.m. takeoff, thereafter saw the sun rise and set at eight-hour intervals, i.e., sunrise over the Atlantic, sunset over Saudi Arabia, sunrise over Malaya, sunset over Guam, sunrise in California. Total: three sunrises, three sunsets in a period just a few hours short of two full normal-sized days...
...Saudi Arabia's Saud, only six months ago depreciated in most quarters as a well-meaning but confused desert chieftain, has become a much-sought-after man in the Arab world, and a key figure in U.S. hopes for a more stable Middle East...
...Partners. This slow, bespectacled chief of the world's most feudalistic autocracy is a curious associate for the West's greatest democracy. Saud is responsible to no parliament or council, and no Saudi is allowed a vote. The King's air-conditioned palaces rise in a land where one in every three citizens is still a nomad living in black tents and using camel urine for hair dressing, and only five out of 100 have enough education even to write their own names...
...policy, the Soviet Union doubtless would grunt a little more this week at the social season linked delicately to an extension of U.S. diplomatic activity on many fronts. Heading the calendar: a three day state visit, beginning Jan. 30, by one of the world's last absolute monarchs, Saudi Arabia's bespectacled ghutra-draped King Saud Ibn Abdul Aziz al Faisal al Saud. Scheduled before Suez to visit Washington for discussions on the U.S. air base at Dhahran, influential King Saud comes after Suez for conferences of a nature far more serious to the Middle East in general...