Word: meccas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Named for a Gulf of Suez port (through which pilgrims pass on the way to Mecca) where a harmless variety of vibrio was first found. Only later was the virulent form of El Tor found in Celebes...
...good Moslem should, Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser last week made a pilgrimage to Mecca. Clad in white penitential clothing and with one arm and shoulder bare, Nasser entered the sacred Kaaba, housing the ancient Black Stone, and prayed in each of the enclosure's four corners...
...insisted on by the 40 Egyptian agents sent ahead to work out security arrangements for Nasser's first visit to Saudi Arabia since 1956. In the intervening years, relations between the two states became so strained that Nasser had even forbidden Egyptian Moslems to make the pilgrimage to Mecca...
Clark is one of the few Negroes who ever went to a segregated school largely to see what it felt like. "I'm quite clear on this. I was fascinated by the concept of a predominantly Negro institution," he recalls. He remembers Howard in the 30's as a mecca of Negro intellectuals whose academic and social concerns coincided, and fondly recounts bull sessions with the likes of Franklin Frazier, Abraham Harris, Francis Sumner, and Ralph Bunche...
...lasting friendships in foreign countries." Dancing partners, for those traveling solo, are guaranteed each and every evening. Those who like their friendships more violent may join the Judo Friendship Tour of Japan (about $1,395 for 14 arm-twisting days). Included is a course of instruction at the Mecca of the judo world, Tokyo's Kodokan...