Word: meccas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gold inscriptions on the walls and ceilings. Outside, the sun sparkled on the crescent that tops the minaret 160 ft. above Washington's stately Massachusetts Avenue. The $1,250,000 mosque (built with the contributions of 15 Moslem nations) stands canted to the street in order to face Mecca.*The world's only air-conditioned mosque, it is part of a new Islamic Center (two wings housing offices, a library and eventually a museum), will be the principal shrine for the 32,500 Moslems in the U.S. and Canada...
...wide Pacific. Amid all the dedicated bores, Miller remains a fascinating character. He is rather proud to find himself an institution of sorts-the No. 1 U.S. Bohemian. One of the most appealing things in his book is his shyly proud report that his correspondence (including a postcard from Mecca) is filed in the special-collections division of the University of Southern California's library, a mass of 10,000 items which must comprise the biggest pile of profound piffle since Greenwich Village's Harvardman Joe Gould compiled his 10 million-word Oral History of Our Time...
...Your tax dollars have helped Norway and Denmark to reduce their internal debt while ours was mounting," Chicagoans read last week. "We have financed a six-lane highway in Portugal, numerous uncompleted projects in Iran and are now providing free airplane excursions for thousands of Arabs visiting Mecca. The record is filled with innumerable instances of 'foreign aid' so dubious and downright silly as to be almost beyond belief. It includes dress suits for Grecian undertakers, public baths for Egyptian camel drivers and even iceboxes for Eskimos...
...open split with King Saud, perhaps would have compelled him still further toward Iraq and the West. This week there was a flurry of flying to save faces.. Syria's Kuwatly popped in on Nasser; together with Nasser's top political adviser, he went on to Mecca to see Saud. They were all desirous of re-creating that somewhat bogus show of Arab unity proclaimed only three months ago in Cairo. Each for his own reasons, all proclaimed that peace was better. Their words could not disguise the fact that it all added up to a victory...
...royal visitor in Saudi Arabia, Iran's handsome Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi donned a seamless broadcloth robe, joined other pilgrims in a trek to Mecca, Islam's holiest city...