Word: mecca
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...religiously "beautiful custom" that in practice too often is a "pretext that paralyzes our activity." He shocked his hearers by urging them not to fast during Ramadan, which begins Feb. 29. As a clinching argument, Bourguiba recalled that even Mohammed, when inconveniently overtaken by Ramadan on his march to Mecca, counseled his soldiers: "Break the fast, and you will be stronger to confront the enemy." Today's enemy for Tunisia, said Bourguiba, is the "humiliating backward condition of our country." It remained to be seen whether progressive-minded President Bourguiba, for all his political strength, could break a custom...
Last week Greenleaf signed a new contract to provide Beirut's airport restaurant with 750,000 fresh eggs a year. A British contractor asked Greenleaf to set up a vast poultry farm in Libya (on a percentage basis). A businessman in Saudi Arabia, anxious to furnish Mecca with fresh eggs, offered Greenleaf a similar contract. At a subsidiary farm near Shiraz, Iran, Greenleaf stepped up production to supply Iran's egg market. This week Greenleaf also made its first shipment of eggs to Aramco in Saudi Arabia, which now imports them from Australia. Predicted Stevenson: in 1960 Greenleaf...