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...Moslem tie that binds the Aryans of Iran, most of whom are members of the Shi'a sect, to the Arabs of the Sunni sect, who inhabit Saudi Arabia. The Shah prayed at the Prophet's mosque in the holy city of Medina, and in Mecca he performed the umra, the little pilgrimage, walking seven times around the Kaaba, toward which Moslems turn when they pray...
They should be. During Lyndon Johnson's three decades in Washington, the community has been transformed from a decaying, unpaved cow town into a humming tourist mecca. As Congressman, Senator, Vice President and President, Johnson City's native son has showered largesse on his home hill country. First, in New Deal days, came the Lower Colorado River Authority, whose dams harnessed and tamed waters that had ravaged the countryside. Then he won for Johnson City the Pedernales Co-Op, which today provides power from the authority's steam plants to some 18,500 customers in seven counties...
...system of dams, lakes and canals is being constructed. Linked to the fun city by monorail there will eventually be an experimental, radially designed city and a 1,000-acre industrial park. But the locomotive pulling them all will be Disney's Amusement Theme Park, a mecca for fun lovers that will support every other part of a Disney world. All this, of course, is in accordance with the Disneyland Effect's guiding maxim: Money is where...
...School's grant total soaring from one million in 1964 to four million in 1967. Not all the funds were earmarked for urban work, but the urban allotment increased steadily. In 1965, Theodore R. Sizer, Dean of the Ed School, noted in his annual report: "Education's mecca is now Federal Office Building #6 in Washington...
...laws merely codify what hospitals are already doing. They do embolden doctors, but in practice they may prove more restrictive-and even increase illegal abortions. So it seems in Sweden, which in 1938 enacted a law almost exactly like Colorado's. Far from being an abortion mecca (foreigners are rarely accepted), Sweden puts women through a multilayered screening that creates excruciating delays; 56% of Stockholm-area legal abortions occur after the 16th week of pregnancy. Bureaucratic paper shuffling often holds up legal operations until the 24th week-producing live babies that sometimes cry for hours before dying. To avoid...