Word: mecca
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Frankly, the local ski salesmen are somewhere this side of desperate. North Conway, N. H., considered by many as the mecca of New England skiing circles, boasted four to six inches of snow all Christmas vacation, and sweltered under 45 degree temperatures. Pinkham Notch had "intermitent skiing" although the notch is usually drifted full of snow by New Year...
Allais' admirers insist that his method is swifter, simpler and safer-but so far, the U.S. is a long way from accepting it. Schneider himself still teaches at the Eastern skiers' mecca, North Conway, N.H. Most U.S. Olympic stars, including Slalom Champion Gretchen Fraser, are confirmed Arlbergians. Even Sun Valley isn't committed: it is teaching both methods...
...befitted the most powerful labor leader in the West, Seattle's bald, pink-faced Dave Beck toiled assiduously last week to satisfy the demands of protocol at the A.F.L. convention. He arrived in Cincinnati for the big doings as punctiliously as a good Moslem entering Mecca. He donned a proper hand-painted necktie, submitted cheerfully to interviews, and loitered diplomatically in the lobby of the Netherland Plaza Hotel, glad-handing rheumy and belligerent old union patriarchs...
...life had been one long schooling in the devious ways of Arab rivals-and of great powers. Abdullah was born in Mecca 66 years ago, into one of the proudest families of Islam, the Hashimites, in the 39th generation in direct line from the Prophet Mohamed. He was the son of Hussein, Sherif of Mecca. From the age of eleven he grew up at the court of the Turkish tyrant Abdul Hamid in Constantinople, where he was, like other children of notables, a hostage for the good behavior of his father. There the boy Abdullah learned languages .(besides Arabic...
Moscow is the "mecca" of theater-lovers from all countries, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana told members of the John Reed Society last night. Emphasizing the "marvlous new audience" that now floods Russian theaters, he said that the choice of plays in the Soviet capital was larger than anywhere else in the world...