Word: mecca
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Paul Baerman took up breadmaking when she and her husband moved to Atlanta from San Francisco, a mecca of crust. Apart from its delicious hot breads, "Atlanta was a wasteland as far as good bread goes," she recalls. Her favorite recipe-and that of many other amateur loafers interviewed by TIME-is for Julia Child's French bread, which also gets high praise from Beard. Other specialties of Mrs. Baer-man's are French croissants and brioches, as well as sourdough bread, which has a tart flavor imparted by a quirky starter, the homemade leavening agent that gold...
...that great sports mecca of the East, Princeton University, there exists a magical playground for all of the student sports enthusiasts to romp in--Jadwin Gymnasium. This bastion of athletic endeavors, complete with its multitudinous underground squash and handball courts, wrestling rooms, weight rooms and soccer fields represents one of the greatest excesses ever perpetrated on the sport world...
...Rick Samp, who has lived his whole life here, Cambridge is home. To Rick Shepro, it is a "movie mecca." To Dwight Cramer, it is beckoning bars...
WITH NINE COMMERCIAL movie houses, a dozen or so college film societies, church groups, institute film festivals--old movies, some new movies, experimental shorts, documentaries, visits by directors and stars--Cambridge is in some sense a movie mecca, one of the biggest movie towns in the country. "Not big enough," though, says an official of more than one of the commercial houses. More than 30 years after the most successful business years for Hollywood, the movie business in Cambridge has finally passed its peak...
...subsidies to the ship, which is two-thirds government-owned, will end this spring, and the $80 million France will be put up for sale-probably for $15 million. One possible customer is the Arab League, which would use the ship to transport pilgrims to Mecca. That would be a more dignified fate than that of the United States, now mothballed, and the Queen Elizabeth, destroyed by fire as she was about to be converted to a floating university in Hong Kong harbor...