Word: sheiks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vermouth, the young Emirs were always welcome guests. For Ibn Saud's younger sons, as for many Arabs, it was easy to forget the Koran's teachings in the face of such infidel delights. Two years ago one son went on a binge with a neighboring sheik's son, that ended in the latter's death. Another of the old King's sons was involved in a drunken brawl, and Ibn Saud had him publicly flogged...
...customs. Moslems got equal justice with Christians in the law courts of Outremer, and the practice of their religion was generally respected. When a Crusader recruit insulted a local Moslem ruler, who was visiting the castle of the Knights Templar in Jerusalem, one of the knights apologized to the sheik, pointing out that the man had just arrived from Europe and knew no better...
...choose between duty and a maharaja's fortune (once estimated at $75 million). Karan, a Hindu, has been nominal ruler, since 1949, of predominantly Moslem Kashmir in place of his exiled father. Kashmir's real ruler, the man who banished Karan's father, is Prime Minister Sheik Mohammed Abdullah, a Moslem. As he had long threatened to do, Abdullah persuaded the Kashmir constituent assembly to abolish the 106-year-old dynasty of the ruling Singhs. As a sop to the sentiments of the Hindu minority, however, he offered to let young Karan become the state...
Most of the girls seem to have romantic complications. Daughter Anne (Jeanne Grain) almost misses the marital boat by being assistant mother to her younger brothers and sisters. Ernestine (Barbara Bates) has a crush on a college sheik. Budding Belle Martha (Debra Paget) charms an Amherst man when she blossoms out in a bathing suit. Even Widow Gilbreth temporarily titillates Tycoon Edward Arnold...
...Sheik Sulman has a palace, neat but not gaudy, overlooking the oilfields. He collects falcons, saluki dogs and fast Arabian race horses. He has a private preserve of black buck gazelles imported from India, and is the only one allowed to shoot them. Like Kuwait's Abdullah and most of the sand-dune sheiks, he has never traveled beyond the Middle East and doesn't intend...