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Word: mecca (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Unity. Despite his wealth, he shuns luxuries, has no hobbies, and usually reads himself to sleep over bank reports. So strict a Moslem is he that he prays toward Mecca five times a day, allows none of his employees to drink, smoke or eat pork in his presence. Unimpressed by pomp, he treats peddlers, peasants and princes alike. He knows almost every Arab ruler from Ben Bella to King Saud, royally says of Jordan's King Hussein: "He is like one of my sons, but I tell him when he is wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Prosperous Peddler | 4/26/1963 | See Source »

...which his doctors quickly ordered bottles of plasma as a precaution. Saud's spokesman reassuringly squelched the flurry of worry. "The doctors are there," he said, "not because the King is very, very sick but because of the importance and the power of their patient." Or, as Radio Mecca put it to Saud's subjects: "The King is in good health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saudi Arabia: Long Linger the King | 4/5/1963 | See Source »

...satin, $200 in British pounds, and hundreds of thousands of rubles in state loan certificates, rubies, coins and medals. A crook named "Blue Eyes" was all set to haul the swag out by car to Afghanistan. The gang had hoped to use the profits to finance a pilgrimage to Mecca. Instead, they all landed in a Tashkent jail, sentenced to terms of 10 to 15 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Gold Rush | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

...well as in a host of small new ones that have been sprouting on the hills each year. In the West, they were trying out the ski tows and warming huts at such new places as Big Mountain in Montana and Alpine Meadows in California. But the major mecca for college-agers at Christmastime is the town of Aspen, developed by the late industrialist Walter Paepcke high in the Rocky Mountains, 105 miles southwest of Denver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: The Ski People | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

...Mecca for fashion models is Paris' House of Dior, but for redheaded Welsh Mannequin Maggie Griffiths, 23, Dior was becoming a bore. "Fittings from 10 in the morning until 10 at night; the same clothes in the same shows day after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 31, 1962 | 8/31/1962 | See Source »

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