Word: mecca
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...Germany's early 19th century Romantics (Brentano, Eichendorff, Holderlin). In natural sciences, it abounded with men like Bunsen and Kirchhoff, who in 1860 demonstrated spectrum analysis, and Helmholtz, one of the founders of the law of the conservation of energy. In medicine, it was a world-famed mecca, and over the years its professors won seven Nobel Prizes...
From the far-flung corners of the Moslem world, pilgrims last week converged on Mecca, city of the Prophet's birth, where they would make the ritual seven circuits around the shrouded monument and enter to kiss the Black Stone handed down by the Angel Gabriel to Abraham. If they took time to notice, they might have detected a change in the air. Along the six-lane highway that leads inland to Mecca from the Red Sea port of Jiddah, pilgrims were ministered to by mobile hospitals, reservoirs of ice water, and troops of Moslem Boy Scouts...
...house walls, the Muslims attempt to proselyte in the mess halls, in the exercise areas, wherever they encounter other Negroes. Converts go through a reform of sorts, if they obey Elijah's injunction to give up tobacco, dope and alcohol and pray five times daily facing Mecca. Their demands for separate religious services are firmly denied by most prison authorities, on the ground that they are not a religious sect (the 100,000 authentic Moslems in the U.S. heatedly disavow Elijah and his followers). They must shave their goatees. When pork appears on prison menus, Muslims disdain it.* Mess...
...served a growing contingent of Moslem diplomats. Friday night contributions to the collection plate have grown apace. And to keep up the semblance of Soviet affection for Islam, every year a token delegation from Russia's 30 million Moslems is allowed to make the long pilgrimage to Mecca...
...Concubines. The palace gates opened. Shrieks rose to the sky as the coffin of King Mohammed V emerged, draped in a venerable black, green and gold cloth that, by tradition, had hung at the tomb of the Prophet in Mecca. Rhyth mically the crowd cried "Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar!" (God is most great). Thus last week King Mohammed V. the found er of independent Morocco, was laid to rest in the royal mausoleum. Mohammed, though recently prone to hypochondria, was in good health and enjoyed life with his two wives and an estimated 28 concubines. Yet last week, swiftly...