Word: meccas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning prayers, as the crack Pakistan Mail raced westward across the Sind desert one day last week. In the wooden cars at the front of the train, crowded beyond normal capacity, shivering Moslem passengers balanced precariously on narrow wooden seats to bend their knees in the direction of Mecca. In cars reserved for them, veiled womenfolk nursed babies and tied up bedrolls in anticipation of arrival at Karachi in an hour's time. Pakistan's bearded Foreign Minister Sir Mohammed Zafrullah Khan made his devotions in the quiet of an air-conditioned carriage...
...there is a Mecca for this masculine half of the great deceit it is the Medical Room of Dillon Field House, where three trainers work constantly all afternoon during the football season, putting roll after roll of adhesive on the legs of the football and soccer teams...
...kingdom provided riches out of the Arabian nights, some from the duties leveled on the annual torrent of Mohammedan pilgrims to Holy Mecca, but mostly from the vast oil deposits which the King leased to U.S. oil companies on a 50-50 basis. His present share: $200 million a year. A strict Moslem, who forbade smoking, drinking and even non-Moslem churches among the foreigners who came to draw his oil, he nevertheless took to modern inventions like a child let loose in Toyland, eventually had his palaces festooned with telephones and radios, his courtyards teeming with fleets of automobiles...
...Saud, as his heir, instead of settling the succession-as he had-"by the sword." Recently, half blind, racked by arthritis and heart disease, the old King handed over many of his duties to Crown Prince Saud and retreated into one of his fabulous palaces at Taif, near Mecca. There, last week, at 72, a fragile shadow of the giant who once rode at the head of the Wahabi, Ibn Saud the King of the Desert died. As he had decreed, the new King is Saud al Saud...
Died. Abdul Aziz Ibn Abdul Rahman al Faisal al Saud. 73, oil-rich King of Saudi Arabia; in his palace at Taif, near Mecca (see FOREIGN NEWS...