Word: meccas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were coming home last week. All through the Middle East, Africa and wherever in the world Islam has taken root, airports, seaports, railroad stations and bus terminals were crowded with families waiting for about half a million Moslems who had made the hadj (pilgrimage) to the holy city of Mecca...
BRITAIN ITSELF. London is still the Commonwealth mecca. Last week it was playing host to Australia's Prime Minister Robert Menzies and to conventions of Commonwealth motorists, and fruit growers. A parliamentary delegation from Ghana was conferring in Whitehall. Said an Indian diplomat: "If almost any other member dropped out of the Commonwealth, it might well survive. But if Britain dropped out, it would vanish...
Roman Catholics, exhorted them to set a Christian example for their subjects in the gambling mecca...
Almost 30 years after he last boomed through the title role of Othello in England, Actor Paul Robeson, 61, was the tormented Moor again at the Shakespeare Memorial Theater, opening the 100th season of the mecca in Stratford-on-Avon. Free to roam since his eight-year U.S. passport ban was lifted last June, Fellow Traveler Robeson got an ovation from the audience, almost unanimous huzzahs from the critics, but his Desdemona, blonde British Actress Mary Ure, was rapped for her lack of pathos...
...only across its top, but deep into the south-as far as the lower reaches of the Belgian Congo. Northern Nigeria is as rigidly Moslem as Saudi Arabia, and political meetings in Guinea come to a halt at sundown, when everyone troops out, shucks shoes, and bows to Mecca. Throughout most of Africa the ubiquitous East Indian minority, tirelessly busy at trade and commerce, has also left its mark: the "European" towns of East Africa take more after Bombay than after any city in Europe. In Kenya a member of the Legislative Council may rise to speak, dressed...