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This week, after a couple of years on the road in places like West Point, N.Y., and Knoxville, Tenn., the National meet returns to the Belmont Plaza Olympic Pool at Long Beach State for three-days of psyching, shaving, screaming, and swimming in good ol' Southern California, the mecca of American swimming...
...past decade or so the Harvard-Yale hockey game has had about as much significance as a mid-season battle between the Bruins and the Golden Seals. Ho hum. The mere rivalry between the two schools alone used to be enough to have the game scheduled in that mecca of schoolboy hockey, the Boston Arena. But even that has begun to fizzle, and last year the game was rescheduled for the cozy confines of Watson Rink...
...extraterrestrial life. The late Sir Tyrone Guthrie writes about theater, Anthony Burgess examines the novel, Alan Lomax discusses singing, and Barnaby Conrad summarizes bullfighting. Although more than half the scholarly contributors are American or English, the authors come from a total of 131 countries. "A.S.A.," who writes on Mecca, for example, is Saudi Arabian Geographer Ass'ad Sulaiman Abdo...
PHILADELPHIA--The Palestra in Philadelphia is a Mecca for basketball enthusiasts, and the ancient snakepit seems to inspire the Harvard basketball team, only to snatch success away in the waning moments of a game. On Saturday night the pattern was repeated as Harvard lost to Penn, 55-53, in the last second of play...
...eminent religious judge, Yamani was born 43 years ago in Mecca. After receiving an L.L.D. from the University of Cairo when he was only 19, he came to the U.S. in the mid-1950s and studied comparative law at New York University and Harvard...