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...Everyone wants to go to the mecca of the east--the six square miles of Cambridge," said Jean Le Vaux, the president of LeVaux Realty...

Author: By Elsa C. Arnett, | Title: Cambridge Housing Market Prices Escalate | 3/4/1986 | See Source »

Today, however, Freeport has become a discount shopper's mecca...

Author: By David S. Graham, | Title: L.L.Bean | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

...Dahlia and the other women fail to rouse the faint-hearted Sultan, his situation looks grim. The evil Ahab Younow, backed by his maniacal mercenary Moslem bodyguard, Mecca Myday (Robert McManus), is poised for action. Mecca's not a bad ally to have: "I eat armies for breakfast. I drink blood. I snack on glands." (He's not about to ask any superiors if we can win next time...

Author: By Melissa I. Weissberg, | Title: The Heat Is On at the Hasty | 2/19/1986 | See Source »

...abolished an edict that Buhari had used to muzzle criticism from the lively Nigerian press. Babangida permitted Buhari to retire honorably from the army. Buhari's right-hand man, Major General Tunde Idiagbon, a Muslim, was allowed to return from Saudi Arabia, where he was making a pilgrimage to Mecca when the coup occurred. Noted a Nigerian journalist: "In most countries, a man like Idiagbon would have been shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nigeria Striking a Delicate Balance | 2/17/1986 | See Source »

...best source for answers, and Mecca to a pasta devotee, is a pastificio, or pasta factory, such as Gerardo di Nola in Castellammare di Stabia, about a 40-minute drive south of Naples. One of Italy's largest producers of premium pasta, it is a bright and airy factory where the starchy aroma suggests tons of boiling pasta. The current president, Gerardo Ronza, is a grandnephew of Gerardo di Nola, who founded the company in 1870. A slender, precise man who lives in an antiques-filled apartment over the factory, Ronza savors the lore and history of his product. Everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Pasta: a Matter of Form | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

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