Word: mecca
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Last month Saud's jobless sons convinced their father that he would lose his throne unless he acted. In keeping with their talents, the princes' plot was simple. A tour of western Saudi Arabia was scheduled for the King, including the key cities of Taif, Mecca and Jidda. When Saud reached Jidda, he was to issue a royal decree dismissing Prince Feisal and his reformist Cabinet. Then the royal family would once more be in charge...
...That idea is now getting urgent attention across the country. New research centers are being studied or built in Boston, Chicago and Detroit, in California, Florida, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Virginia and Wisconsin. Physicist Berkner's center in Dallas is off to a $25 million start as a "mecca for men of science and technology." By 1975, it aims to have 1,000 researchers working with Southwestern universities to breed 2,000 Ph.D.s yearly...
...neither read nor write-but neither, points out Saudi Arabia's Mohammed ben Laden, could the Prophet Mohammed. The Middle East's biggest builder, hard-driving Ben Laden last week mobilized his construction teams to begin a 600-mile road across the desert and mountains from Mecca to Saudi Arabia's capital, Riyadh. Since setting up his company in 1938 (he learned construction techniques as an Aramco laborer), Ben Laden, 49, has completed $500 million in projects, including jetports in Jidda and Medina, a handful of palaces, and miles of superhighways. His greatest thrill was building...
...Beirut. Forty-eight hours later, Saud got an even worse shock: one of his favorite wives, handsome Princess Im Mansour, vanished from the palace to join her lover, Ben Salem, in exile. The personal and political blows combined to impair the regal health once again. Moslem pilgrims to Mecca who were booked on half a dozen jet flights home suddenly found their passages had been canceled. Instead, the airliners flew to Riyadh, picked up the ailing King and his huge retinue, and carried them off to Vienna. At week's end King Saud was reportedly in an oxygen tent...
...Center, administered by the Corporation, was conceived as a Mecca for students of Greek literature, philosophy, and history from universities in the United States and abroad. Seven "junior fellows," three from the U.S. and one each from England, France, Germany, and Japan, are working there this year...