Word: saudi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forbiddingly distinguished: Eugene O'Neill, the greatest playwright the U.S. had produced; Welshman Dylan Thomas, the best young poet in the English language; Sergei Prokofiev, Russia's great composer; General Jonathan Wainwright, hero of Bataan; Mayor Ernst Reuter, hero of the cold-war battle of Berlin; Saudi Arabia's fabulous King Ibn Saud; Britain's redoubtable Queen Mary...
...bullet that killed Lebanon's first and greatest Premier, brilliant, little Riad el Solh (TIME, July 30, 1951), distressed the generous heart of old Ibn Saud, autocrat of Saudi Arabia. The old lion of the desert could always count on an ally when El Solh was representing Lebanon. Ibn Saud wept and vowed to look after his old friend's widow and four daughters. Tragically in the patriarchal Arab world, El Solh died without leaving...
...Flame. When Alia returned to Beirut this fall and learned of the marriage negotiations, she laid down conditions. She would marry Sultan if he would join the foreign service and live in Washington, Paris, London, Beirut or any other civilized place. She would not live in Saudi Arabia, where women stay in seclusion. She would never wear a veil. Sultan must marry no other woman and must agree to live his entire life with her. Sultan must put a large sum in escrow just in case he should decide to leave...
Last week it was all over. The matchmakers bowed out. Alia was back in her political science classes at the American University of Beirut. Sultan tended to his job of governing Riyadh and seemed a good bet to become Saudi Arabia's Minister of Agriculture. Both heaved great sighs of relief. Their families were disappointed, but also aware that times have changed in the Middle East...
...addition to Pakistan and Indonesia, the abstentious were: afghanistan, Burma, Egypt, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Yemen, and Yugoslavia. El Salvador and Lebanon were absent...