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| | KING FAISAL: OH, WEALTH AND POWER -- Monday, Apr. 07, 1975 -- Page 1 -- TIME |
 | | When he died at the age of 69, Faisal was not only among the richest men in the world, thanks to Saudi Arabia's incredible oil wealth, but one of its last absolute monarchs, and a powerful voice for conservatism in the Arab world. |
 | | Thus he continued the tradition of the majlis, or weekly royal audience, at which Saudis were free to approach their King with a message or a petition. |
 | | Faisal had a reverence for desert ways, and strove mightily to keep alien influences from corrupting his kingdom. |
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