Word: meccas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard is no longer Mecca" (the words of a Harvard administrator). This is a matter of opinion. George S. Rousseau Instructor of English
Courtial takes on Ferdinand as a "secretary" in a business that becomes the mecca for every meccano-minded nut in France. It is the world of popular mechanics fictionalized. Courtial himself is an idealist and charlatan, infatuated with the possibilities of lighter-than-air travel. For modest fees, he demonstrates balloon ascents to mobs of gawping yokels...
...monarch, King Feisal, the ruler of the largest and richest of the moderate Arab nations. Last week Feisal wound up a 28-day, five-nation tour in President Habib Bourguiba's Tunisia-his latest trip in ten months to promote his projected Islamic summit meeting in Mecca. While...
...seething tangle of Middle Eastern intrigue, that is precisely what Nasser does consider it-and he is determined to frustrate Feisal's call to Mecca just as he torpedoed the fourth Arab summit meeting, which was to have been held this month, rather than sit at the same table with Feisal's "forces of reaction." Increasingly, the Arab states are being called to line up on one side or the other, Nasser's or Feisal's. Nasser is still the name to conjure with in the streets of the Middle East, but Feisal can offer hard...
...speedup that was overtaking Tahoe, and which imperils many another U.S. lake of natural beauty, is the population-cum-recreation explosion. In 1956, Tahoe was a drowsy summer paradise of about 3,000 residents; by 1965, it was a turbulent tourist mecca of gaudy gambling casinos, glaring neon bar strips, and other commercialized enticements playing to camping-room-only crowds. Now with just under 6,000,000 visitors annually, even the foresight that led the South Tahoe Public Utilities District to build and thrice expand its sewage disposal plant from 1958 on has proved woefully inadequate; the plant, with...