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...allowances every year. Says Major General George J. Hearn. Georgia's adjutant general: "The Guard is a kind of livelihood for boys in the country and in small towns." More than that, the Guard armory is often a town's most impressive edifice, and a social mecca of food sales, high school graduations, civic meetings and basketball games...
Died. John Christie, 80, a onetime Eton science master who devoted his million-dollar inheritance to founding the Glyndebourne Opera (in 1934) on his Sussex estate, turned it into a musical mecca where Britain's bluebloods enjoyed summer festivals of mostly Mozart; at Glyndebourne, England...
Islam last week marked the end of the 1,333rd pilgrimage to Mecca. As 1,250,000 Moslems left for home, they carried with them from Mohammedanism's most devout observance the echoes of a noisy political feud between Saudi Arabia's monarch, King Saud, and Egypt's dictator, President Gamal Abdel Nasser. In the struggle for supremacy in the modern Arab world, the ancient ways of Saudi Arabia are slowly changing...
...Radio Cairo broadcasts prayers for the quick demise of the "antisocial, reactionary, squandering, lecherous, oligarch Saud. his family and supporters." In retaliation, Saud, who once financed a $5,000,000 plot to kill Nasser, this year barred delivery of the kiswa, the canopy for the holy Black Stone in Mecca that Egyptian craftsmen had spent almost a year weaving. Making a new 800-yd. embroidered covering for the shrine has been a prerogative of Cairo each year since the 17th century, but months ago Saud announced that because last year's kiswa "was made of inferior cloth" and quickly...
Dying System. New York was once a teachers' mecca. the high-paying home of nationally renowned academic high schools. Compared with other big cities, it still pays well: the New York median salary is $7,425 (v. the national $5,716). Yet New York has a lower starting salary than any of 104 surrounding school districts, and pay seems so skimpy for men teachers in particular that an estimated 50% of them work an average three hours a day at moonlighting jobs...