Word: suleiman
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...garden of his modern home two miles outside Jedda, Saudi Arabia's shrewd old (60) Finance Minister Abdullah El Suleiman sat down to wait for a visitor. For greater comfort in the muggy 80° heat, he slipped off his sandals. When a U.S. car rolled up, barefooted Abdullah arose, greeted Arabian American Oil Co.'s Executive Vice President Fred A. Davies and ushered him inside...
...cheer about. They packed the festive, narrow streets of their medieval capital city of Rhodes as a Greek destroyer, escorted by U.S. and British destroyers, nosed into the mountain-rimmed harbor, and King Paul and Queen Frederika landed to take formal possession of the islands. In 1522, when Suleiman the Magnificent stormed the battlemented castle of the Knights of St. John, the islanders had become Turks; since 1912, when imperial-minded Italy won its Turkish War, they had been Italians. This week, by the terms, of the Paris peace treaty with Italy, they became again what they had always remained...
Iran's oil was part of the greatest known oil reservoir on earth. Only in the south had part of its riches yet been tapped, by the British, but the results were impressive enough. From the oil area around Masjidi-Suleiman and the great refinery of Abadan at the head of the Persian Gulf, the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. drew 350,000 barrels a day, with indicated reserves of six to seven billion barrels. Few oilmen doubted that the untapped fields north of Iran, especially round Lake Urmia and Samnan, held oil as well...
...Names, Royal Mutton. When all was prepared, King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud (pronounced ib'n sa-ood) embarked with his brother, the Emir Abdullah; two of his sons, the Emirs Mansour and Mohamed; his deputy foreign minister, the Sheikh Yussuf Yassin; his finance minister, the Sheikh Abdullah Es-Suleiman; his courtiers, guards, cooks and other retainers to the number of 48. On this, his first journey outside his own country, the exigencies of space on a destroyer cramped the King's style. Traveling in his own deserts, he would be more likely to have 2,000 retainers...
Oriental harems and Freudian philosophy both find their place among the fall book releases of the Harvard University Press. "Suleiman the Magnificent," by Roger B. Merriman '96, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, and "Freud Master and Friend," by Hanns Sachs, instructor in Psychology, are among the publications...