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...King Feisal, 61-who succeeded profligate King Saud only last November-skipped Prince Mohammed ibn Abdul Aziz, 57, and picked shy Prince Khaled ibn Abdul Aziz, 55, as his eventual successor. The passed-over prince is a cheerful bon vivant, who himself suggested that Khaled be named the royal heir-and was reportedly rewarded with more than $1,000,000 for his unselfishness. Khaled, who is known as "the quiet one," has assisted Feisal at international conferences, currently is Saudi Arabia's Deputy Premier. A painfully shy, hardworking administrator, he is an expert hunter, relaxes by competing in camel...
...Rage." This final installment opens on that act of defiance and closes with victory in World War II. As Churchill's Foreign Secretary and acknowledged heir, he had the power to dispute the Prime Minister's judgment, and frequently did. As early as 1942 he foresaw the postwar threat of Russia and at summit councils vigorously opposed the inclination of Churchill and Roosevelt to give Stalin just about anything he demanded. The Reckoning could have rested securely on those wartime achievements. But the memoirist could not resist shrouding them with the dark afterthoughts that beset the involuntary...
...sober warning: "President Johnson is running what may be termed the rhetoric risk. He likes to promise everybody something and to dream aloud, admittedly more often in the language of the Snopes family than of Aristotle, about the wonderful future that is acoming. As a Texan and an heir to that state's neoPopulist traditions, he is a natural master of the America-is-agreat-big-wonderful-barbecue school of politics...
...scanning devices, already in operation in some companies, will eventually enable computers to gobble up all kinds of information visually. The machines will then be able to memorize and store whole libraries, in effect acquiring matchless classical and scientific educations by capturing all the knowledge to which man is heir...
...warlords, the Japanese and the Communists, introduced the 1949 Taiwan land reform that made 90% of the farmers masters of the land they worked, and until his own ill health and the rising fortunes of Chiang's son reduced his power, was regarded as the Generalissimo's heir presumptive; of liver cancer; in Taipei...