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Until recently, the country's budget was recorded by longhand in a grey, clothbound ledger by an old friend of Saud's father. Now there is a published annual budget, and last year Saud established a national economic planning board, with a former officer of the World Bank acting as adviser. But the adviser's plan for a $10 million survey of northern territories is snared in a maze of royal bureaucratic procedure; out of $70 million earmarked for development, $50 million is unspent...
From the entrance, the cathedral's dominant characteristic is simplicity. The ten pale grey, angled walls visible from the entrance are bare except for a simply inscribed rectangular Tablet of the Word on each of them. No windows can be seen, but the entire nave-from the dark marble floor to the fanlike tracery of the roof-is drenched with a multicolored light that draws the eye toward the altar and the huge Graham Sutherland tapestry (in color, opposite) that covers the north wall behind it. From the altar, the source of light is suddenly, almost theatrically apparent...
...ornate and heavily guarded Palais de Justice, ex-General Raoul Salan, 62, was on trial for his life, charged with treason. Wearing a well-cut grey suit and elegant Cardin silk tie, Salan looked more like a prosperous businessman than the head of the terrorist Secret Army Organization. It was hard to imagine, as Le Monde put it, "that such a man wielded such frightening power...
Jill Shallcross (Olivia) tempered the usual icy tones of her role with a winsome warmth. Forbidding when she chooses to be, this Olivia can cast off her grey vizard at will, as she blows her nail wistfully and thinks of her lover...
...told the owners that Ridan (Nadir spelled backwards) was impossible to rate, could not be held back for a run in the stretch, probably could not go the 1¾-mile Derby distance. He lost the mount and wound up on George Pope's Decidedly, a handsome grey colt that had never won a stakes race. The handicappers gave him no better than a 15-to-1 chance. Said Hartack: "I came down here for only one reason...