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...million) import house in the Virgin Islands, his adopted home of more than two decades. As the islands' commissioner of commerce from 1961 to 1964, Kimelman was one of several businessmen who turned the U.S. possession from a sleepy haven of sand and sun into a tourist mecca. Since the islands are one of the two American free ports outside the U.S. (the other: Guam), the business of importing duty-free liquor, perfume and other goodies for tourists has grown fast. Kimelman's fortune is estimated to be $10 million...
...LAND, 34, president of Crow, Pope & Land Enterprises, developers. Land has helped make Atlanta a mecca for swinging singles with some 4,000 apartments, half of them designed for the young and unmarried set. "When I first came here in 1956,1 planned to go back to Columbus, Ga., to practice law, but the business atmosphere in Atlanta was so exciting that I couldn't leave," he says...
...several charming touristy scenes that look as if they were taken from his widow's home movies, we are shown Malcolm on his 1964 pilgrimage to Mecca, a trip that would cause him to revise his feelings about separatism and the supposed inherent evil of white people. Now Malcolm, having entirely broken with Elijah, maintained that "there are only good and bad human beings." Soon after, at age 39, he would die in a Harlem mosque, the victim of assassination...
...MALCOLM stubbornly refused to let any man do his thinking for him. Leaving the Muslims, Malcolm began to articulate a Pan-Africanist philosophy. He traveled through Africa, and then made a pilgrimage to Mecca...
...fulfill their religious obligations, a group of well-to-do Yugoslav Moslems made a pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina and then visited Baghdad before returning to the Serbian province of Kosovo. Most brought gifts from Iraq. Yugoslav health officials suspect that some also brought back variola major, the most virulent form of smallpox. Two weeks after their homecoming -variola's incubation period-several of the travelers came down with smallpox, triggering an epidemic that has infected 155 and killed at least 28 in just a month. Only now is the outbreak being brought under control...