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Take the so-called Southern mystique. Long ago it became a journalistic catch-all to account for quirky folkways. It is currently a favorite of reporters straining to analyze the new presidency or transform the lackluster little Plains into a mecca of color...
Ross's masterpiece was Pinehurst, which he laboriously molded out of the sand hills of North Carolina by using mule-drawn drag-pans. Overnight. Pinehurst became the mecca of American golf. The idea of building a resort at Pinehurst was the brainstorm of another Bostonian, the soda-fountain magnate James W. Tufts. On Monday, April 10, the Harvard golfers open the new season with a dual match against Tufts and Amherst
...madeth the arduous journey from the holy land they calleth Notre Dame with much fanfare. He traveled to the Houses, and spoketh great words about the future, attracting believers who followed Him up the steep pilgrimmage to the ancient roundball mecca in Cambridge...
Deal with it, folks. California has become the emotional and psychological, if not the intellectual mecca of America. New home remedies for family and personal problems appear weekly on the nation's bestseller lists, and everyone who's anyone in the public eye has a psychoanalyst in the closet. Behind every great man, it seems, is a great shrink...
...community, a heavily liberal, white-collar mecca, has been notably appreciative. Mayor Paul Soglin, 32, a one-time student activist, canceled his subscriptions to the Capital Times and State Journal, and has given the weekly some scoops, like his plan to veto the city council's ban on nude dancing. The county district attorney and several religious leaders and university professors have issued statements backing the strikers. A striker-sponsored poll showed that 20% of readers had canceled their subscriptions or stopped buying either of the dailies since the strike began; the papers, however, report that circulation is down...