Word: saudi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lowly art of bookkeeping, King Saud of Saudi Arabia is no match for his more cultivated younger brother, the lean and able Crown Prince Feisal. Two years ago, after Saud's munificent handouts to himself and some 300 assorted princes of the realm had brought even oil-rich Saudi Arabia deeply into debt, an angry family council forced the King to hand over the effective reins of government to Feisal. Under the guidance of experts on loan from the International Monetary Fund, Feisal proceeded to balance the budget by severe maneuvers, even slashing the allowances of pampered princelings...
Unprincely Manner. But Faisal's austerity did not sit well with many Saudis. Budget cuts brought to a near standstill King Saud's busy building of palaces and impressive government offices in Riyadh, and grumbling artisans and tradesmen quit town by the thousands. And Feisal's stern watchdog role took a heavy personal toll. Troubled for years by a stomach ailment, he went on a liquid diet and an 18-hour workday. Snapped one Saudi who recently visited Feisal: "His dingy office was piled right to the ceiling with files, files, files. He insisted on signing everything...
...work in thermos bottles. Others line up at the office water-coolers with the chalky powder* and mix their lunch in a paper cup. Drugstores serve the stuff across the soda fountains, and manufacturers are even shipping it ready-mixed in handy cans. Metrecal distributors have filled orders from Saudi Arabian royalty and the King of Greece. The well-heeled businessmen who dine at Denver's Twenty-Six Club drink it; so do the spring-training players of the Birmingham Barons. Food Editor Marjorie Barrett of Denver's Rocky Mountain News wrote about her Metrecal diet, soon became...
...shores of Lake Geneva into hotels near by, where the damage to furnishings one season amounted to $20,000. And when the cool weather arrived up north, the whole entourage would flee across the Mediterranean to Ali's magnificent mansion on the heights above Beirut, purchased from a Saudi sheik for a reported...
Foreign merchants awaited his trips with anticipation, for the aging Sheik was a generous man. When Saudi Arabia's King Saud went to Qatar for a royal visit laden with gifts in the form of bags of precious stones, Sheik Ali reciprocated by presenting Saud with 16 automobiles, one with gold fittings...