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...with its Arab population. Israeli Arabs not only enjoy full political rights they have representatives in the Knessel but also unrestricted religious practice. The Israeli Government safe guards the holy shrines of Islam and every year helps in the chartering of buses for Arab pilgrims wishing to travel to Mecca and Medina for holidays. Thousands of Arab children attend free Israeli public schools and have access to institutions of higher education. Furthermore, many Arabs over the years have benefited from social programs stretching from the Galilee to the Negev, including low-cost housing, government subsidized food and free medical care...
Even before the peaked and porched Queen Anne-style house was refurbished, 18,000 tourists visited the new mecca. It is one of 13 such presidential boyhood homes open to the public. Nearly 200,000 people visit Dwight Eisenhower's home each year in Abilene, Kans., and some 30,000 find Theodore Roosevelt's house on New York City's East 20th Street...
...friction tape for a puck. Until he was 21, Vairo had never put on ice skates. But soon he was hanging around New York Rangers practice sessions and reading anything he could find on the subject. By 1972 he had saved enough money to send himself to Moscow, the mecca of European hockey. "Soviet teams made magic with the puck," Vairo says. "Their tempo was quick, and they were always in superb condition. I figured this was the model to copy...
...million football stadium in Odessa, Texas, rises Mecca-like above the flatlands. It has seating for 19,032 people, parking for 4,756 cars, and boasts a press box and a booth for coaches. The playing field, 18 ft. below ground level, is topped with AstroTurf. This stadium was not designed for the Cowboys or the Oilers. It is for two high school teams: the Permian Panthers and their crosstown rivals, the Odessa Bronchos. The head coach at Permian earns $43,000 a year, a whole lot more than the average Permian teacher's salary of about...
...ever there were a time for a Harvard hockey team to seek spiritual support, this is it. So like a Moslem to Mecca, like a Catholic to St. Peter's, like a nerd to Cabot, it was time for this hockey fan to make his pilgrimage to the shrine at the corner of Atwater and Lincoln, the Montreal Forum...