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The Sheik of Kuwait, Sir Abdullah
al-Salim al Subah
The sheik appears to be one of the more en
lightened of the Eastern monarchs, living in a
modest house near Al Kuwait. He is said to have
simple tastes and to possess only one limousine,
one wife, and two sons. The sheik's royalties on
over a million barrels of oil a day are reportedly
allocated this way: to run the government,
for public welfare work, and for "safe
keeping" in a London bank.
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The Sheik of Qatar, AH bin ,
Abdullah bin Qoasim Al Thani
Little is known of. this oil mogul, but
he is said to manage, somehow, to live
"obscurely" on about $50 million a year.
Some $10 million of this annual income
goes to support some 400 assorted rela
tives, wives, concubines, and children of
. the sheik. He is a charitable man and
many afternoons may be seen sitting on
the steps of his white palace, distribut
ing alms to his needy subjects.
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Haroldson Lafayette Hunt
The head of the Hunt Oil Co., largest inde
pendent producer in the U.S., has only six lines
in Who's Who but a fortune estimated at over
$2 billion and an annual income between $40
and $50 million. Born in Vandalia, 111., he re
ceived only a grade-school education before
going to work as a ranch hand and lumberjack.
He borrowed $50 to make his first oil investment
and hit pay dirt right off. Hunt is said to live
simply on a 10-acre estate in Dallas; his house,
patterned on Mount Vernon, is five times larger.
The King of Saudi Arabia, Saud
Ibn Abdul Aziz al Faisal al Saud -
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i (, i wiin an annual income esumaiea at $juu mil
1 i lion, he lives on perhaps the most lavish scale in
.) ! the world, with 24 Dalaces. three wives, some 80
concubines, and a personal household retinue of
10,000. The potentate has a fleet of gold-plated
Cadillacs for his own use. In addition, each of
his sons he has "about" 25 receives his own
limousine and chauffeur upon reaching the age
of 12. Now 59, King Saud mounted his throne in
1951. Only one in 20 of his subjects can write.
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Aristotle Socrates Onassis
' This Turkish-born shipping magnate claims he is
not the legendary man who bought the bank at Monte
Carlo. He merely has a majority interest in the gam
bling casino, whose official name is the Societe
Anonyme des Bams de Mer. Some 30 other enterprises
contribute to his estimated hoard of $350 million, the
first million of which was made in the tobacco busi
ness when he was only 23. Onassis has homes in New
York, Paris, the Riviera, and South America, besides
maintaining private suites on several ocean liners. .
But he often plays host aboard his $2 Vi -million yacht
Christina to such friends as Greta Garbo and Sir
Winston Churchill not to mention Maria Call as. A
brother-in-law bf rival shipping tycoon Stavros Spy
ros Niarchos, he once remarked: "We're all trying to
. cut each other's throats, but every now and then we
all gather around a family table and act civilized
on account of the ladies."
Nubar Sarkis Gulbenkian
"I was the apple of his eye," said this oil oper
ator of his father, Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian
known as "Mr. Five Percent" who netted "sev
eral millions a week" from the Iraq Petroleum
Co. and was worth some $500 million when he
died in 1955. The 63-year-old heir, famous for
his flowing beard, bushy eyebrows, and mono
cle, recently moved, with his third wife, from
London's Ritz Hotel to a $l,000-a-month apart
ment on the top floor of a building overlooking
Green Park. The Gulbenkians' flat is said to be
"informal, cozy, and very much lived in," with
a 37-foot dining room and an aquarium built
into a wall of the spacious sitting room. Occa
sionally, on the spur of the moment, Mrs. Gul
benkian may decide to fly to Paris for a new hat,
"but she is always home the same afternoon."
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